MORAL STATUS: OBLIGATIONS TO PERSONS AND OTHER LIVING THINGS.(Review)

The Philosophical Review;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...MORAL STATUS: OBLIGATIONS TO PERSONS...Press, 1997. Pp. 265. Moral Status asks what creates moral...that attempts to ground moral status on a single criterion...analyzes the concept of moral status, and argues for its...alive is the basis of moral ...

Respecting What We Destroy: Reflections on Human Embryo Research.

The Hastings Center Report;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......can be ascertained. It is to the question of moral status, then, that we turn first. Moral Status and Respect There are nonmoral uses of the...is dependent on a reckoning of the entity's moral status. An entity toward which moral agents have...6] Moral agents clearly ...

The moral status of children: children's rights, parent's rights, and...

Social Theory and Practice;  March 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ......philosophical foundation for thinking about the moral status of children. It is driven by what we...commonsense understanding of children's moral status. However, the three claims appear to...capture a commonsense picture of the moral status of children, then that picture would...

Contractualism and Moral Status.

Social Theory and Practice;  June 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......counterintuitive implications about moral status. If, as some contractualist theories...and Thomas Scanlon,(3) may respond to moral status concerns. I argue that the problem is...provide a fully adequate account of moral status. 1. Forms of Contractualism I am interested...

EMBRYOS DESERVE RESPECT, BUT THEY LACK MORAL STATUS

Evansville Courier & Press;  August 6, 2006 ;     518 words ......the benefit of others. If embryos have moral status as people, wouldn't destroying them...children or adults. So, if embryos have a moral status, including the right not to be killed...But are embryos people? Do they have moral status? It is important that we get beyond...

THE MORAL STATUS OF THE EMBRYONIC HUMAN: RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES

Ethics & Medicine;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......slightly but significantly different: "The Moral Status of the Embryonic Human : Religious Perspectives...consideration of Christian understandings of the moral status of the embryonic human.2 Jewish understandings...development of Christian understandings of the moral status of the ...

A NEGLECTED SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF THE METAPHYSICAL AND MORAL STATUS...

Ethics & Medicine;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......time. The moral question is what moral status we should accord to a being if we...Respect Principle: namely, that if the moral status of an a (something with nature a) is greater than the moral status of a b (something with nature b...

The moral status of the human embryo: the twinning argument. (The New...

Free Inquiry;  December 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......ethical debate concerning the moral status of the human embryo. Scientists...with whether blastocysts have any moral status. There are two main arguments for the view that blastocysts have moral status. One relies on the claim that...

Oly: Drug cheat champions have no moral status, says Rogge

AAP Sports News (Australia);  February 25, 2002 ;     442 words ...00-00-0000 Oly: Drug cheat champions have no moral status, says Rogge By Adrian Warner SALT LAKE CITY, Feb 24 Reuters...said today. Competitors who fail drug tests lose their moral status as Olympic champions even if they cannot be stripped...

Ethical theory and the moral status of animals. (section 1) (Animals,...

The Hastings Center Report;  May 1, 1990 ;     700+ words ......philosophers is not to be found. Nevertheless, moral philosophy can still make an important contribution to the debate about the moral status of animals and their use in biomedical research by analyzing relevant intuitions and arguments. Our intuitions, specific...

Age-hardenable nickel-base alloy: RA718 (UNS N07718) is a nickel alloy...

Advanced Materials & Processes;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......two commonly used heat treatments are as follows. * Treatment I: Anneal at 925-1010[degrees]C (1700-1850[degrees]F) and air cool or faster. Age at 720[degrees]C (1325[degrees]F) for 8 hours, furnace cool to 620[degrees]C (115[degrees]F), hold...

Experts Discuss Use of Human Stem Cells in Ape, Monkey Brains; Panel...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  July 14, 2005 ;     700+ words ......the cognitive and emotional capabilities -- and hence the moral status -- of the animals. We quickly realized that a fundamental...are unique to humans in ways that make us worthy of higher moral status? What sets one primate, including us, apart from another...

Effects of cooling rate on aging at 475 [degrees]c of an...

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......maximum hardening when it is aged at 475 [degrees]C.[1,2,3] This phenomenon has been attributed...processing temperature ([approximate]1000 [degrees]C). The published works to this respect...attribute such transition to the time at 475 [degrees]C during which cooling is sufficient to...

Spin-off makes heads turn. (360 Degrees Communications Co.)(Company...

HRMagazine;  February 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...At 360 [degrees] Communications, it's all for one and...more loyal than the employees at 360 [degrees] Communications Co. When talking to employees...a little more than two years ago, 360 [degrees] Communications didn't even exist. Two...

SIX DEGREES MAY BE SHRINKING IN TODAY'S WORLD

News-Sun, The (Waukegan, IL);  January 25, 1999 ;     496 words ......are familiar with the theory of six degrees of separation, either through the successful John Guare play, Six Degrees of Separation, or through the subsequent...singing It's a Small World, the six-degrees concept posits we are but six persons...