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Understanding Moral Personhood by Raquel Panillos is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses moral personhood and different theories of what constitutes a moral person. It defines moral persons as beings with moral status or standing, and distinguishes between agentive and non-agentive moral persons. Agentive persons can perform morally evaluable actions as moral agents and have both rights and duties, while non-agentive persons only have rights and cannot be morally accountable. It also outlines five criteria for moral personhood - the genetic, life, rational, sentient, and
- Author
- Raquel Panillos
- Language
- EN