MCD BIO 60 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Negative And Positive Rights, Marine Ecosystem, Martha Nussbaum
23 Jun 2016
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Animal rights and the values of nonhuman life. The fundamental criterion for moral considerability is sentience/ the capacity to suffer. [include invertebrates] sentience -> protect and promote interests of those who have it. Peter singer sentience qualifies an organism for equal consideration of its interests. Moral agents should give equal weight to substantively equivalent interests, regardless of species. No ground rights, appeal to the aggregate interests of others (animals can be sacrificed to advance total welfare) The fundamental criterion for moral considerability is subjecthood (require sentience and propositional attitudes, emotions, will, orientation to oneself and future. [include apes, dolphins, whales, dogs, pigs, other highly intelligent animals] Subjecthood generates rights against the infliction of pain and to the conditions of consciousness and activity [freedom to exercise normal activity, right to life] Equality species with morally relevant capacities have equal rights. The fundamental criterion for moral considerability is being alive, belonging to a natural system. Object of concern an aggregate or system.
