Mary Anne Warren investigates a theoretical question that is at the center of practical and professional ethics: what are the criteria for having moral status? That is, what does it take to be an entity towards which people have moral considerations? Warren argues that no single property will do as a sole criterion, and puts forward seven basic principles as criteria. She then applies these principles to three controversial moral issues: voluntary euthanasia, abortion, and the moral status of animals.
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"Her theory should prompt discussion and help clarify the concept of moral status. Her multicriterial approach for determining moral status has the potential to assist in the struggle to handle the complex moral issues prevalent today."--Choice
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Mary Anne Warren, Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University.
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strong moral status, stronger moral status, ascribing moral status, full moral status, human moral patients, rational moral agency, teleological organization, stronger moral obligations, basic moral rights, equal moral status, having conscious experiences, biosocial theory, behavioural capacities, sentient animals, natural predation, sentient human beings, environmental ethicists, moral equals, land ethic, moral agents Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Transitivity of Respect, Agent's Rights, Sentience Only, Peter Singer, Tom Regan, Personhood Only, Immanuel Kant, Life Plus, Categorical Imperative, Sentience Plus, United States, California Press, Mary Midgley, Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press, Albert Schweitzer, Baird Callicott, Paul Taylor, Aldo Leopold, Arthur Schopenhauer, Baird Calhcott, David Hume, John Stuart Mill, Nel Noddings New!
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- The Problem of Abortion by Joel Feinberg on page 201, page 219, and Back Matter
- Environmental Ethics (Teaching Ethics) by Centre for Business & Public Sector Ethics in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Animal Liberation by Peter Singer on page 16, page 64, and page 112
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- The Ethics Of Artificial Uteruses: Implications For Reproduction And Abortion (Ashgate Studies in Applied Ethics) by Stephen Coleman on 4 pages
- Making Medical Decisions for the Profoundly Mentally Disabled (Basic Bioethics) by Norman L. Cantor in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions by Cass R. Sunstein on page 173, and page 297
- The Ethics of Animal Experimentation: A Critical Analysis and Constructive Christian Proposal (American Academy of Religion Academy) by Donna Yarri in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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