PHL273H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Environmental Ethics, Moral Agency, Moral Rights
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Moral agents agents who possess the capacity to act on basis of reasons. Moral patients the beings whose interests/claims have moral standing or are morally relevant. For all a, x deserves moral consideration from a. Moral considerability as substantive: what sorts of entities should be given moral standing. Moral considerability as regulative: what conception of moral considerability is true? www. notesolution. com. Singer believes that having interests is a necessary and sufficient condition of moral considerability. This answers the first question of which nonhuman entities have moral standing (the ones with interests should). Disproving the equal value of human life notion (religious, speciesist and superior cognitive abilities ground) Singer states that an interest is basically consciousness or the capacity for subjective experiences i. e. experience of pleasure/pain. It comes from bentham"s utilitarian idea of pleasure/pain, where pleasure is good and pain is bad.
