Search results for "Moral status"
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The status of the human embryo according to Michael Sandel
2012
Michael Sandel es uno de los filósofos norteamericanos más comprometidos socialmente. En este trabajo, analizamos sus pensamientos en relación con el estatuto moral del embrión humano. En general, Sandel defiende que la vida humana debería considerarse como un regalo, el cual, en su opinión, la haría intangible. Sin embargo, parece que defiende la posibilidad de utilizar embriones humanos para experimentos biomédicos. Examinamos aquí el principio biológico de la vida humana, y argumentamos que un embrión humano temprano no es un grupo de células carente de una estructura programada, sino un ser vivo de nuestra especie, perfectamente organizado, con identidad genética individual, la capacida…
Consciousness and Moral Status of Animals
2021
Consciousness is the basis for granting moral status, but it is ephemeral and elusive. Both the ontological and epistemic dimension of consciousness cause hard problems for modern science and the philosophy of mind. On the one hand, consciousness is subjective, and includes conscious states with a phenomenal or qualitative character – “qualia”. It consists of mental states which are accessible to a subject only from the first-person perspective. A being is phenomenally conscious when there is something that is like to be that being. Utilitarianism uses the hedonistic strategy of the moral status, ascribing to that the demand for us to treat sentience as the fundamental property for obtainin…
Commune Ius Animantium (Clem. 1.18.2): Seneca's Naturalism and the Problem of Animal Rights
2013
The present paper focuses on an intriguing passage of Seneca's treatise 'On Clemency' (De Clementia) dealing with the topic of human and animal rights (1.18.1-2). This is the only passage in which the Latin philosopher employs the juridically and philosophically significant expression 'commune ius animantium', thus referring to a form of nature-based 'animal right'. In Seneca's words, there would be a common right of living beings forbidding to perpetrate certain acts of violence. On the whole, however, the passage seems to aim at maintaining the inviolability of human rights, paying special attention to the pitiful condition of slaves. Given the presence of such a man-centered context, sch…