PHI 2398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Animal Rights Movement, Brain Death, Environmentalism
8 Apr 2015
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Stone- natural objects; streams, forests, not just living things. Abolitionists of civil rights movement and the animal liberation movement. Gives us the grounds to make more progress. An unsuccessfully for office- representing the green party. The welfare of animals ought to be considered on equal ground to humans; do our best to the pleasure and enjoyment of life. An applied ethic- based on his theories he provides concrete descriptions of how we should live our lives. Nature isn"t ultimately vulnerable- ability to sustain herself far beyond the reaches of human connection. Singer- beings that are capable of suffering are ones that should be given equal rights. Takes away the idea that equality ought to be rooted in fact (what could be measured) Singer assumes that the environment is within our control but he recognizes that there is some frailty in our ability to control it.
