The History of Why

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Moral standing

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Moral standing concerns whose interests count in deliberation. It differs from the capacity to act as a responsible agent or meet a committee’s performance standard.

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  • Guided course · Module 14 · Lesson 88

    A map you can keep revising

    The garden dispute from lesson 1 returns, now examined through Socratic questioning and public reason. The course ends by building a source-grounded comparison that records disagreement and stays open to revision.

  • Guided course · Module 14 · Lesson 86

    Whose capacities set the terms of moral standing?

    Taylor, Singer and Regan disagree about whose interests count. The lesson tests thresholds of capacity for moral standing and keeps the differences between disability criticism and animal ethics in view.