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- Ethical extensionism is an approach to environmental and animal ethics in which the scope of ethical theories is extended to cover beings traditionally thought to fall outside the purview of those theories.
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May 6, 2019 · Definition. Life-extensionism (or prolongevity) refers to the science-based aspiration and intellectual movement for a significant prolongation of healthy human life, mainly aspiring to the extension of life and health through amelioration of degenerative aging processes, as well as by other means.
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The term life-extensionism is meant to describe an ideological system professing that radical life extension (far beyond the present life expectancy) is desirable on ethical grounds and is possible to achieve through conscious scientific efforts.
Ethical extensionism or moral extensionism is a metaethical or metaphilosophical approach in environmental ethics and animal ethics that extends existing ethical theories and concepts to include entities (animals, plants, species, the earth) that are traditionally excluded.
ABSTRACT. Ethical extensionism is a common argument pattern in environmen-tal and animal ethics, which takes a morally valuable trait already recognized in us and argues that we should recognize that value in other entities such as nonhuman animals.
Ethical extensionism is an approach to environmental and animal ethics in which the scope of ethical theories is extended to cover beings traditionally thought to fall outside the purview of those theories. As traditionally understood, the dominant moral theories in Western philosophy restrict the class of morally considerable beings to ...
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Jan 1, 2022 · Life extension is subject to fierce debate within certain sections of global bioethics (broadly conceived), and it is a topic that will likely never be agreed upon. A vast proportion of literature concerning human enhancement of any type is to some extent morally partisan, arguing from solidified pro- or anti-enhancement positions.
Aug 1, 2011 · Abstract. Ethical extensionism generally involves drawing one or more lines of moral standing. I argue (i) for all living organisms, there is a non-zero probability of sentience and consciousness, and (ii) we cannot justify excluding beings from consideration on the basis of uncertainty of their sentience, etc., and rather we should incorporate ...
