Philosophy 1130F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Speciesism
9 Apr 2020
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Philosophy 1130 : week 7 - lecture notes. Frederick douglass - appeal to congress for impartial suffrage. Political rights belong to everyone who has the capacity to use them. Peter singer - famine, affluence and morality. Equal entitlement to consideration of your interest. Discrimination on the basis of gender lasted and was publicly okay longer than other discrimination. Even if he is right it is just the last form of discrimination among humans. Not a question of capacities, but a question of morality based on the equality of interests for benefit and suffering. Should be finding general moral principles, however not easy to do because we focus on capacities because capacities are unequal. Ex. if you don"t have the capacity to do something then why should you have the right? (we wouldn"t give men the right to abortion).
