Theories of Moral Status and Their Conflicts
Sentience, cognitive capacity, and relationship as rival criteria, and whether status comes in degrees or not at all
Planned, not yet written
This rung already has its place in the Applied Ethics ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.
Will definegradualist moral statusrelational account of moral statuscognitive criterionmoral individualismmoral circle
Assumesmoral statussentiencepersonhoodsubject-of-a-lifespeciesism
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- Moral Status
- Abortionplanned
- Animal Ethicsplanned
- Climate Ethics and Collective Harmplanned