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Cookie akzeptierenRussell Disilvestro
Human Capacities and Moral Status
- Springer Netherlands
- 2012
- Taschenbuch
- 224 Seiten
- ISBN 9789400732537
Many debates about the moral status of things¿for example, debates about the natural rights of human fetuses or nonhuman animals¿eventually migrate towards a discussion of the capacities of the things in question¿for example, their capacities to feel pain, think, or love. Yet the move towards capacities is often controversial: if a human¿s capacities are the basis of its moral status, how could a human having lesser capacities than you and I have the same "serious" moral status as you and I? This book answers this question by arguing that if something is human, it has a set of typical human capacities; that if something has a
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