Meta-Ethical Outlook on Animal Behaviours
Issue: • Author/s: Sanjit Chakraborty
Topics: Epistemology, Ethics, Metaethics, Moral Philosophy
The nominal ground that entwines human beings and animal behaviours is unwilling to admit moral valuing as a non-human act. Just to nail it down explicitly, two clauses ramify the moral conscience of human beings as follows: a) Can non-humans be moral beings?, b) Unconscious animal behaviours go beyond any moral judgments. My approach aims to rebuff these anthropomorphic clauses by justifying animals’ moral beings and animals’ moral behaviours from a meta-ethical stance. A meta-ethical outlook may enable an analysis of ethical and normative views through the limit of moral…
The Morality of Life Extension
Issue: • Author/s: Mirko Daniel Garasic
Topics: Ethics, Metaethics, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Medicine
Life extension, the pursuit of prolonging human life through scientific and technological advancements, has become an increasingly relevant topic as biomedical innovation accelerates. With the possibility of extending human lifespan becoming more attainable, important ethical, social, and philosophical questions arise. Should we intervene to extend life, and if so, what are the moral consequences? After highlighting some of the most promising life extension techniques currently available, this article explores the complexity of such a prospect, offering insights from a range of ethical perspectives on the implications of life extension and…