Eduqas GCSE Religious Studies · C120
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Giving greater moral importance to a being’s interests simply because it belongs to a particular species, especially favouring humans over other animals.
Revise: The Value of Life: Abortion, Euthanasia and SpeciesismPeter Singer is an atheist philosopher who challenges the idea that human life is automatically more valuable simply because it is human. He criticises speciesism: favouring the interests of one species merely because of its species membership.
- Revise: Ethical Perspectives on Human and Animal Life
- Revise: Origin and Value of Human Life in Islam
Prejudice that gives the interests of one species greater importance simply because it belongs to that species.
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- Revise: The Value of Life: Abortion, Euthanasia and Speciesism
Giving preference to the interests of one species over similar interests of another simply because of species membership.
- Revise: The Value of Life, Abortion and Euthanasia
Prejudice or discrimination based on species membership; Peter Singer challenges favouring human interests simply because they are human.
- Revise: Origin and Value of Human Life in Buddhism
Giving different moral weight to beings’ interests simply because they belong to different species.