Korsgaard and Non-Sentient Life
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Korsgaard and Non-Sentient Life
Christine Korsgaard argues for the moral status of animals and our obligations to them. She grounds this obligation on the notion that we share a common identity, our animal nature, with them and that animal pain represents a public reason that binds us; nevertheless, her distinctive attempt to enlist Kantian arguments to account for our obligations to animals has a startling implication that s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Between the Species: An Online Journal for the Study of Philosophy and Animals
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1945-8487
DOI: 10.15368/bts.2014v17n1.2