PHL243H1 Chapter Notes -Fungibility, Sentience, Sexual Objectification
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It isn"t always a sign of disrespect to treat a person as a thing, so objectification can"t be the reason why certain things are bad (336) Objectification = treated as a thing instead of a person (336) Objectification relies on the premise that the most essential elements of human beings are non-bodily and that people are essentially autonomous (337) Lemoncheck says the moral wrong in objectification is the belief that women are inferior to men, so they don"t deserve the treatment required by moral equality (338) Lemoncheck lists distinctive human capacities like sentience, self-awareness, rationality, self-determination, and reflective thought (338) These capacities make self-respect and autonomy possible (338) Person is a moral category whose members share these intellectual and cognitive capacities (338) When these capacities are not respected, the person is being wronged (338) Objectification then = when a person is treated like she lacks distinctive human capacities she does in fact have (338)
