MORAL PERSONHOOD AND HUMANS WITH TAILS: EXPLORING THE BOUNDS OF THE MORAL.
I argue that attempts to explain the objective bindingness of morality by appeal to contingent facts about human nature renders the bounds of morality unsettlingly arbitrary. It provides no principled explanation for the bounds of morality and determinations of who deserves moral standing. This can...
| Publicado en: | Appraisal Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 20 - 26 |
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British Personalist Forum
Spring2016
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| Sumario: | I argue that attempts to explain the objective bindingness of morality by appeal to contingent facts about human nature renders the bounds of morality unsettlingly arbitrary. It provides no principled explanation for the bounds of morality and determinations of who deserves moral standing. This can lead to an expansion of the moral universe. But it fails to guard against drawing distinctions among human beings that are ordinarily thought to be morally repugnant. |
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