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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.
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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 ...
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.
2 TWO EXAMPLES OF MORAL EXTENSIONISM: PETER SINGER, TOM REGAN, AND THEIR CRITICS. 2.1 The Capacity to Suffer: The Utilitarian Extensionism of Peter Singer. 2.1.1 What Is Moral Extensionism?
Jan 2, 2010 · available in the internet without the proper citations and referencing, the role of ethics in education can play a moral and an effective role. This is the reason this paper was written to ensure that students must learn to be honest and not to commit such acts of plagiarism of any shape or form.
