Conflict and Comparison between Species

摘要

In Respect for nature, Paul Taylor insists that all teleological centers of life-that is, all living things with goods of their own-possess equal 'inherent worth.' Inherent worth, according to Taylor, entitles an entity to 'moral concern and consideration' and generates a prima facie duty in all moral agents 'to promote or preserve the entity's good as an end in itself and for the sake of the entity whose good it is' (Taylor, 1986, p. 75). A claim of equal inherent worth, then, is taken to entitle every living thing to some equal measure of concern and consideration, and to an equal prima facie duty on the part of moral agents to promote its good (Taylor, 1986, p. 155).