PHIL448 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sentience, Marc Bekoff, Speciesism
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Key point in singer"s argument: problems with claims of actual (individual or group) equality moral principle doesn"t rely on facts (pp. 2-3: what about facts relating to sentience/capacity for suffering? (bentham"s argument, p. 4) Regan"s animal rights (inherent value) view : what he rejects: simple indirect duty views (kant, complex indirect duty views. Regan: what he (mostly) rejects: utilitarianism the equality principle the utility principle, regan and singer agree about all conclusions for an animal ethics; they disagree about the arguments.
