PHLB02H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Common Rule, Environmental Ethics, Golden Rule
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Final exam notes on various authors of importance. Two different principles cause our motions : the corporeal soul and the incorporeal soul. P2) having an incorporeal soul makes one a subject capable of having experiences, P3) we can only infer that something is. It uses language (animals cant use language don t have incorporeal soul an thus cant suffer/be moral agents) Murdy to show us that anthropocentrism is an acceptable and appropriate way of understanding our moral obligations. The golden rule, as ye would that men should do to you, do ye to them likewise, is a moral axiom which requires reciprocity among ethicizing beings. Environmental concern that in order to save human beings, we need to pretend that other living things have equal value. Murdy points out the paradox and confronts it. There s a conflict between biologists as to how distinct species evolve.
