Ethics
Moral philosophy, speciesism, sentience, rights, and justice.
- Abolitionism and veganism
Gary Francione's abolitionist approach treats veganism as the moral baseline and rejects animal welfare reform as a strategy for ending animal use.
#abolitionism#francione#animal-rights#property-status - Animal rights theory
From Regan's subject-of-a-life to Francione's abolitionism, Korsgaard's Kantian extension, Nussbaum's capabilities, and Donaldson and Kymlicka's Zoopolis — the deontological architecture of animal ethics.
#rights-theory#tom-regan#gary-francione#christine-korsgaard - Argument from marginal cases
The philosophical move that asks what cognitive trait could separate all humans from all animals — and what follows when no such trait survives scrutiny.
#moral-philosophy#speciesism#sentience#singer - Ethics
The moral case for veganism — why sentience, not species, is what grounds the claim that animals count.
#moral-philosophy#sentience#rights#utilitarianism - Sentience
The capacity for subjective experience — what science is learning to detect, and why it is the hinge of animal ethics.
#sentience#consciousness#animal-minds#neuroscience - Speciesism
Discrimination based on species membership — the moral error that veganism names and refuses.
#philosophy#core-concept#ethics - Utilitarianism and animals
From Bentham's 1789 footnote to Singer's equal consideration of interests and today's Rethink Priorities moral-weight work — the utilitarian case for taking animal suffering seriously.
#utilitarianism#peter-singer#bentham#effective-altruism - Veganism
A philosophy and way of living that seeks to exclude, as far as possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals.
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