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Tom Regan

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Regan argues that subjects of a life have value that aggregation must not erase. His rights approach differs from weighing every individual’s interests within a total.

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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.