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Speciesism and Equality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

E. Gavin Reeve
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Professor Bonnie Steinbock (Philosophy, April 1978, 249–250) writes ‘… I am not going to discuss rights, important as the issue is’; but she adds, en passant, ‘According to the view of rights held by H. L. A. Hart and S. I. Benn, infants do not have rights, nor do the mentally defective, nor do the insane, in so far as they all lack certain minimal conceptual capabilities for having rights’.

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Philosophy , Volume 53 , Issue 206 , October 1978 , pp. 562 - 563
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1978

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