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Bentham, Singer, and the Criterion of Sentiency Bentham, Singer, and the Criterion of Sentiency
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Do Humans Deserve Higher Moral Standing? Do Humans Deserve Higher Moral Standing?
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The Real Problem and the Claim that Supports It The Real Problem and the Claim that Supports It
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Moral Standing and Comparative Value Moral Standing and Comparative Value
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Moral Standing and Speciesism Moral Standing and Speciesism
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Lives of Different Value Lives of Different Value
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Autonomy and the Richness in a Life Autonomy and the Richness in a Life
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One Conception of the Moral Community One Conception of the Moral Community
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A Second Conception of the Moral Community A Second Conception of the Moral Community
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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Suggested Reading Suggested Reading
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34 What's Ethics Got to Do with it? The Roles of Government Regulation in Research-Animal Protection
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6 Utilitarianism and Animals
Get accessR. G. Frey (D.Phil., Oxford) is the author of numerous books and articles in normative and applied ethics and in the history of ethics. He is Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University and a Senior Research Fellow in the Social Philosophy and Policy Center there.
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Published:01 May 2012
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Abstract
This article notes that, of all the traditional, mainstream ethical theories, none has been more disposed over the centuries to sympathetic consideration of the pains of animals than utilitarianism. By using a sentiency criterion of moral standing, Jeremy Bentham ensured that the pain and suffering of animals counted in the moral calculus. According to his theory, their pains confer on them moral considerability; and every utilitarian since Bentham has endorsed the sentiency criterion. The discussion in this article examines why utilitarians up to the present day have accepted the sentiency criterion and yet almost routinely failed, with specificity, to include animals within the calculus of utility in their general moral philosophies. Bentham was the first to exhibit this shortcoming. The article holds that in the last four decades, Peter Singer was the first utilitarian in the 1970s to take animals seriously.
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