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Peter Singer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sentience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sentience is the ability to feel or perceive subjectively. The term is used in philosophy (particularly in the philosophy of animal ethics and in eastern philosophy) as well as in science fiction and...
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This article critically explores the assumptions of anthropocentricism, as well as the sentience and deep ecology arguments. ... While Peter Singer argues for the extension of moral standing to some non-human beings because they are sentient, Arne Naess believes that all living beings should be Sentience, for instance,
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Electronic version of 'All Animals Are Equal', by Peter Singer. ... This is why the limit of sentience (using the term as a convenient, if not strictly accurate, shorthand for the capacity to suffer or experience enjoyment or happiness) is the only defensible boundary of concern for the interests of others.
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Electronic version of 'Do Animals Feel Pain?', by Peter Singer. ... Do animals other than humans feel pain? How do we know? Well, how do we know if anyone, human or nonhuman, feels pain? We know that we ourselves can feel pain. We know this from ... If it is justifiable to assume that other human beings feel pain as we do,
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An article by Peter Singer from The New York Review of Books, May 15, 2003 ... By Peter Singer ... Peter Carruthers argues that it is the lack of a capacity to reciprocate. Ethics, he says, arises out of an agreement that if I do not harm you, you will not harm me.
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Then read Peter Singer's book Animal Liberation. Written by an Australian philosophy professor in the 1970s, and revised in the early 1990s, Animal Liberation is the founding book of the modern animal rights movement.
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