Moral Status Obligations to Persons and Other Living Things

Name: Moral Status Obligations to Persons and Other Living Things
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ISBN: 9780198236689

ISBN-10: 0198236689

ISBN-13: 9780198236689

Edition: 1997

Authors: Mary A. Warren

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Mary Anne Warren explores a theoretical question which lies at the heart of practical ethics: what are the criteria for having moral status? In other words, what are the criteria for being an entity towards which people have moral obligations? Some philosophers maintain that there is one intrinsic property--for instance, life, sentience, humanity, or moral agency. Others believe that relational properties, such as belonging to a human community, are more important. In Part I of the book, Warren argues that no single property can serve as the sole criterion for moral status; instead, life, sentience, moral agency, and social and biotic relationships are all relevant, each in a different way.…

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List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/15/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English




An Account of Moral Status



The Concept of Moral Status



Reverence for Life



Sentience and the Utilitarian Calculus



Personhood and Moral Rights



The Relevance of Relationships



A Multi-Criterial Analysis of Moral Status



Selected Applications



Applying the Principles



Euthanasia and the Moral Status of Human Beings



Abortion and Human Rights



Animal Rights and Human Limitations



Conclusion


Bibliography


Index