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Psycast!

Part two, fellow creatures.

So I want to kick off this instalment by drawing a very quick distinction between what we call natural rights and moral rights.

Now, natural rights are those which are self-evident or given to you by God, something that John Locke spoken about, which Jeremy Bentham famously said was nonsense upon stilts.

Very good, Jeremy.

But we're going to be talking about moral rights in this installment.

Moral rights are we're going to define as rights in which one has philosophical reasons for thinking that that being deserves moral consideration. So we're going to be

looking at two types of arguments for establishing moral rights for animals. The first of which we're

going to look at is Christine M. Coilscarred's fellow creatures, our obligation to the other animals.

This is quite a recent publication, isn't it? Is it come out this year, last year?

Yeah, a couple of years ago.

2015. Oh, very good. And we're going to be looking at Peter Singer's Animal Liberation, first

published in 1975. So, two huge texts representing what we might describe as neocantianism

and the latter being a form of preference or hedonistic utilitarianism.

We'll talk about what those mean exactly.

Well, let's talk about it right now.

Should we jump right in to Korskar's main text?

This is the one we set out to be our main reading.

I suppose we need to give a little bit of the background on Kant's ideas about morality before we can say how she's progressed them?

Yeah, and just before I do, it's difficult to go through this book in the amount of depth required to really get an understanding.

I'd highly recommend it if you're, particularly if you study philosophy or you have a very deep interest in philosophy to check out the book.

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