PHI 2396 Study Guide - Final Guide: Conation, Blood Transfusion, Siberian Tiger
29 Mar 2016
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The rights of animals and unborn generations j. Feinberg discusses two basic ethical concepts: right and interest. Feinberg"s main argument: to have a right is to have a claim to something and against someone, the recognition of which could be used to protect one"s legal rights or one"s moral rights. In either case we appeal to the enlighted conscience (the same as self-awareness) To have a right in the full moral sense is to have enlighted conscience: competent adults have rights, rocks are entities w/o self-awareness therefore we don"t have to treat rocks carefully. Conceptual ways of having rights (borderline cases) - there are certain kinds of beings that can have rights because we can meaningfully predicate (based on something) rights to them (follow a certain logic of reasoning). Such beings have only contingent rights which are always in some way combined with the rights of the enlighted conscience o (cid:1)
