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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Moral Status"”.
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Moral Status
… Three present the following view: (i) I explain moral status as follows: something has moral status just in case we have reasons not to cause harms to it simply in virtue of the badness of the harms for it. (ii) Moral status is not a matter of degree. (iii) A living thing has moral status just in …
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The Moral Status of Nonhuman Animals
Although moral individualism is sufficient for making fair moral decisions, it is itself supported by our implicit moral commitments; Rawls (and consequently Rowlands) uses the original position as a method for making moral decisions that are both fair and consistent without proposing a normative …
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THE ETHICS OF PAIN: MORAL STATUS, EMOTION, COGNITION, AND THE LAW OF LABORATORY ANIMALS IN PAIN RESEARCH
… models is that unlike humans, animals lack moral status and are not entitled to moral consideration; as such, humans are permitted to use them in pain research. However, evidence suggests that both humans and animals can experience morally significant emotions, including suffering, and both …
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Social work, independent realities & the circle of moral considerability: Respect for humans, animals & the natural world
… it is that entitles an individual or entity to moral consideration, or as having moral status, is thoroughly anthropocentric, and is articulated in complete disregard of the context of our fundamental evolutionary continuity and our embeddedness within an evolving natural world, and flies in the …
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The inner life of goals : costs, rewards, and commonsense psychology
… ignorant agents, and their reasoning about the moral status of agents. Moreover, a formal model of this theory, embedded in a Bayesian framework, predicts with quantitative accuracy how humans make cost and reward attributions.
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Contractarianism and Moderate Morality
In his book The Limits of Morality, Shelly Kagan claims that contractarian approaches to ethics are incompatible with our common, everyday, "moderate" morality. In this thesis I defend a version of contractarianism that I believe leads to both deontological constraints and options; i.e., to a …
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The light in the darkness: an assessment of the retributive urge
… schematic structure, its rationality, and its moral status. These issues draw together three philosophical fields: emotion theory, virtue ethics, and sociobiology. My conclusions are as follows. (1) Retribution and revenge are distinct forms of behaviour with different emotional bases. (2) The …
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Utilitarianism and Buddist ethics: a comparative approach to the ethics of animal research
… animals in research. The historical views on the moral status of animals, the debate surrounding their use in animals, as well as the current 3R paradigm and its application in Canadian research are explored. The thesis then moves on to expound the moral system of utilitarianism as put forth by …
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De villkorligt frigivna : relationen mellan munkar och lekfolk i ett nutida Thailand
… in 1997, an intense discussion concerning the moral status of the sangha took place. The religious interests and demands clearly differ between different groups. What still seems to unify these groups or classes of Buddhists, however, is their concern for the sangha's compliance with a few …
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Transhumanism in Film
… surrounding these technologies are deep, moral dilemmas that have occupied human minds for generations. In an effort to better understand these deep-seated questions, this thesis evaluates transhumanism through the medium of film. Films can act as case-studies by which to discuss the …
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The Psychology of Plato's Republic: Taking Book 10 into Account
… been left open, though, is the question of the moral status of those people who are decent, but are not people of perfect virtue. People such as this are left undiscussed in Books 1-9. At the end of Book 9, on my view, Glaucon and Adeimantus (as well as many readers) should be left wondering …
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Under what conditions, if any, should be abortion legally permissible
… arguments, as well as arguments about the moral status of the fetus, ethics and the moral framework of abortion. Not limited to that I will address what are the legal rights of the mother and the fetus respectively should be. I will briefly refer to the Law but I will approach the legality …
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The moral and legal status of the human foetus : a critical analysis from an Islamic perspective
This thesis aims to ascertain what the status of the human foetus should be in Libyan law where it is currently inadequately determined. Specifically, is the foetus a person, a type of property, or something else, and is humanity significant for such a determination? Additionally, is moral status …
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Children's participation in chronic illness decision-making: an interpretive description
… as measures of equality and indicators of the moral status of individuals in liberal democratic societies. To some extent, the status of children in western societies is a contested question, and hence, the nature of children’s contributions to decisions is a matter of debate. Evidence suggests …
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Islamic Bioethics: National Regulations and Guidelines of Human Stem Cell Research in the Muslim World
… rely on the same subject matter, the embryo's moral status. These findings emphasize that the variation in HSCR policies is not embedded in the Islamic theological or philosophical reasoning but in other socio-cultural, economic, or political issues. Revisions of restrictive policies and the …
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The extension of liberalism beyond domestic boundaries : three problem cases
… Problem" challenges us to provide plausible moral reasons against pursuit of such public policies. I argue that the only adequate response to this problem comes from a liberal focus on the rights of future generations, and the moral status that this confers on them. Taking such seriously, …
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Drivers of enforcement in the Environment Agency
… 5 by an analysis of the extent to which the moral status of offending can influence Agency enforcement. Chapters 6 and 7 are devoted to predicting the impact of enforcement guidance on the Agency's enforcement practice. While chapter 6 deals with the direct implications of this guidance on …
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Addressing Fragmented Relationships and Dislocation in Environmental Thinking: Ubuntu Insights on Human and Nonhuman Wellbeing
… capacities-based approaches to what counts morally, ubuntu provides an alternative vision, one that decolonises ideas and practices that suppress or deny the flourishing of individuals or groups. This dissertation proposes an original, ubuntu-inspired framework, an 'ethico-ecological …