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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...

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Published in:Appraisal Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 20 - 26
Main Author: Kisilevsky, Sari
Format: Article
Published: British Personalist Forum Spring2016
Subjects:
Ethics
Human behavior
Aversion
Human beings
Anthropology
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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.