PHIL 329 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sentience
14 Mar 2016
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We are considering 2 things to set up our discussion of the bowie paper: (1) Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and the conditions under which restrictions on that liberty is justified. Steinbock and feinberg - no, the environment doesn"t have a right not to be harmed. Harming the environment could be wrong, but it is not wrong in virtue of the rights it (the environment) possesses. So if it is wrong, it is wrong for some other reason. Interest views - focus on interests that beings have. Steinbock - a being without interests is a being that can"t be harmed. So no interest --> no right not to be harmed. Feinberg - no interests --> no rights - no right not to be harmed. X has an interest in y when x"s desires, taken as a collective, would be better satisfied by y"s presence rather than its absence.
