PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Joel Feinberg, Conation, Intentionality

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2396
• Professor: Iva Apostolova

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Joel fei(cid:374)berg: (cid:862)the rights of a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als a(cid:374)d u(cid:374)bor(cid:374) ge(cid:374)eratio(cid:374)s(cid:863) What(cid:859)s the diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)e: animals are not genuine moral agents; therefore, they do not have rights and duties in the same way that humans do. They do not have legal rights cannot have rights or duties (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause they(cid:859)(cid:396)e (cid:374)ot ge(cid:374)ui(cid:374)e (cid:862)(cid:373)o(cid:396)al age(cid:374)ts(cid:863: common reasons to deny animal rights: Animals are intellectually incompetent, we cannot reason with them (no rational capacity: they cannot be instructed in their responsibilities cannot have duties. Incapable of being moral subjects, of acting rightly or wrongly in the moral sense, or having duties and obligations. They cannot claim their own rights by making a motion, or appearing in a court on their own: cannot initiate, on their own, any kind of legal proceedings. Animals do(cid:374)"t u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d whether any of their rights have been violated and they cannot respond adequately to that: lack of understanding of the very idea of a right.