Search for dissertations about: "moral standing"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words moral standing.
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1. The moral status of nature : reasons to care for the natural world
Abstract : The subject-matter of this essay is the moral status of nature. This subject is dealt with in terms of normative reasons. The main question is if there are direct normative reasons to care for nature in addition to the numerous indirect normative reasons that there are for doing so. READ MORE
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2. Duties to Past Persons : Moral Standing and Posthumous Interests of Old Human Remains
Abstract : Genetic research has increasing power to analyse old biological remains. Biological traces of well-known historical persons can reveal personal information. The aim of this thesis is to investigate ethical concerns for the dead, within the biological, historical and archaeological sciences. READ MORE
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3. Aspects of Blame : In which the nature of blame, blameworthiness, standing to blame and proportional blame are discussed
Abstract : This thesis discusses what blame is, what it is for an agent to be blameworthy for having performed a certain act or omission, what makes an agent blameworthy for having performed a certain act or omission, whether the idea of standing to blame generalises to blame understood as something privately held, and what it is for blame to be proportionate. It provides original answers to these questions that move the current discussion of blame forward. READ MORE
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4. What is Wrong with Extinction?
Abstract : The aim of this investigation is to answer the question of why it is prima facie morally wrong to cause or contribute to the extinction of species. The first potential answer investigated in the book is that other species are instrumentally valuable for human beings. READ MORE
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5. What is Wrong with Extinction? - The Answer from Anthropocentric Instrumentalism
Abstract : The book contains the first part of an investigation aimed at finding out why it is morally wrong (at least prima facie) to cause species to go extinct. That it is morally wrong seems to be a very basic and widely held intuition. It seems reasonable that a moral theory worth taking seriously ought to be able to account for that intuition. READ MORE