Kant is very controversial for his views on animal ethics. He states that since animals aren’t rational so they don’t deserve direct moral consideration, and committing a cruel act to an animal is only bad in so far as it is bad for yourself. How does having a capacity for rationality make you worthy of moral consideration. More importantly why does Kant make the argument that rationality is the basis of moral consideration. I simply don’t get it.
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because you clearly have an essay due and didn’t do the reading. maybe be a better student in the future.
Also there really is no eli5 answer possible – The dude literally caused an entire rift in the field to the point ‘kantian and not kantian’ is a valid way to describe an entire profession
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