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Some philosophers employ the language of "moral considerability " but this term is extremely ambiguous.
Act Utilitarians employ yet a third notion of moral considerability , which is a matter of having one's interests (e.g., the intensity, duration, etc. of one's pleasure or pain) factored into the calculus to determine which action minimizes the bad and maximizes the good.
When non-utilitarian philosophers discuss "moral status" of a type of being, they are generally using a more categorical notion than moral considerability.
Moral considerability is: 1) continuous, in that the degree of moral considerability that a being possesses varies in proportion to the strength, character, and number of its interests; and 2) asymmetrical, in the sense that a being might have moral claims on others without others having moral claims on it.
This problem, unfortunately known in the literature as the problem of "marginal cases," poses serious difficulties for "personhood" as the criterion of moral considerability.
Given the long-standing view that non-humans are mere things, there are still many who reject the arguments presented here for the moral considerability of non-humans and the significance of their interests.
Moral standing, or moral considerability , is the idea that certain things matter morally in their own right and so are appropriate objects of direct fundamental moral consideration or concern (Birch 1993, P. Taylor 1986).
There is the further question how to determine what degree of moral worth or moral considerability attaches to beings who possess some rational agency capacities below the threshold level, or who possess capacities of some other sort such as bare sentience that should be regarded as moral considerability qualifications.
People whose cognitive anomalies impede them from arriving at and articulating complex and rationalized accounts of their own good very often are not accorded full status, and sometimes even are denied considerability , by moral and political theories, including pluralistic liberal theories committed to respecting citizens' diverse values.
And people who lack abstract thinking skills, thereby diverging from the kind of human capability philosophers themselves exercise so well and enjoy so greatly, usually are dismissed as unimportant, that is, as not rising to philosophical considerability.
Feminists have tried to remedy a pervasive narrowness in the usual ways of framing those issues philosophers have considered important enough to command philosophical attention and work that is, in the benchmarks that signal philosophical considerability.
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Noun (incorrect usage) . Although "considerability" is not a standard English word, its intended function, based on usage, is as a noun. It attempts to describe the state or quality of being worthy of consideration. Ludwig AI confirms this is not a recognized word.
Expression frequency: Common
