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Can non-agents be moral or immoral?
Human children and non-human animals are denied moral status or equal consideration with human adults due to their lack of consciousness, reason or autonomy
They are not moral agents or subjects of ...
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What's the difference between a 'duty' and 'obligation'?
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I enrolled in a class, The Philosophy of Human Rights. The authors of the course readings never use 'duty' and 'obligation' interchangeably, so I suspect that the terms may have distinct ...
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Is it possible to define (legally-useful) inalienable natural rights without a deity?
Here's my understanding of natural rights:
Natural rights are those rights inherent to a being.
Those rights are inalienable if they may not be overridden by social contract.
Without some sort of ...
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