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qid 10962 · philosophy
Question: Which of the following capacities does Carruther's assume that animals lack?
- the capacity for suffering
- the capacity for practical reasoning
- the capacity for rational agency
- the capacity for conscious experience
Our answer: C. the capacity for rational agency Source quote machine-checked (exact quote)
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Current source
Peter Carruthers, The Animals Issue: Moral Theory in Practice (Cambridge UP, 1992), Ch. 5, hosted on the author's University of Maryland faculty page
https://faculty.philosophy.umd.edu/pcarruthers/AI-5.htm
“Throughout, I shall make the simplifying assumption that no animals should be counted as rational agents, in the sense that is central to contractualism.”
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Earlier version (superseded)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-animal/
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Earlier version (superseded)
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