Applied Ethics - Animals

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  • Created on: 23-02-16 15:20
Peter Singer thought that the way animals are currently treated is...
Morally Unjustifiable
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Which is a correct Singer quote?
"In suffering the animals are our equals."
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When is harm to animals justified according to a utilitarian?
When the pleasure created outweighs the animal's suffering
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Equality of Moral interest must be based on what according to Singer?
Sentience
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According to Singer, humans are morally required to take what into account?
An animal's welfare (pain/pleasure), in equal measure to that of a human.
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Which is true (according to Peter Singer)?
The interests of animals should be taken into account differently as all have varied experience and levels of interests
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Why does Kant believe that animals are not ends in themselves?
Because they do not have the capacity for practical reason
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For Kant, what is the only source of good?
A good will
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Guess the correct Kant quote:
Humans can "deal and dispose [of animals] at one's discretion"
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Under what conditions would treating animals badly be morally wrong for Kant?
If it compromises a person's ability to treat other humans well, and therefore threatens the person's own moral integrity.
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According to Aristotle, animals have no share in...
Eudaimonia
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Recent Virtue Ethicists believe that
Not to recognise the importance of animal suffering is to show a lack of compassion
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Rosalind Hursthouse (a modern virtue ethicist) believes that
No animal can be granted higher 'moral status' as there is no familiar set of factors that some animals share and others don't.
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