PHI 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sentience, Immanuel Kant, Murray Bookchin
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James friesen states that deep ecology embraces anthropocentrism and takes a total-field perspective. false. Placing women as closer to nature, according to val plumwood, places them closer to liberation. true okchin, environmental problems are directly related to social problems. false. Peter singer reflects the views of those who wish to give the interests of animals less weight than the interests of human beings. false. Some argue that only rational, autonomous, and self-conscious beings deserve full and equal moral status, thus animals should be granted moral status. true. Tom regan in, the case for animal rights, argues for the claim that animals have rights in just the same way that human beings do. false. In indirect theories animals warrant our moral concern on their own. true. The argument from marginal cases attempts to demonstrate that if animals do not have direct moral status, then neither do such humans as infants, the senile, and the severely cognitively disabled.
