TY - BOOK ID - 78530592 TI - Moral status and human life PY - 2011 SN - 0511852649 1107217636 1282918729 9786612918728 0511931468 0511932804 0511927614 0511925077 0511779607 0511930127 9780511932809 9780521766913 0521766915 9780511779602 9781107637610 1107637619 9780511852640 9781107217638 9781282918726 6612918721 9780511931468 9780511927614 9780511925078 9780511930126 PB - Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Children. KW - Social status KW - Childhood KW - Kids (Children) KW - Pedology (Child study) KW - Youngsters KW - Age groups KW - Families KW - Life cycle, Human KW - Social standing KW - Socio-economic status KW - Socioeconomic status KW - Standing, Social KW - Status, Social KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - Prestige KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Law KW - General and Others UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78530592 AB - Are children of equal, lesser, or perhaps even greater moral importance than adults? This work of applied moral philosophy develops a comprehensive account of how adults as moral agents ascribe moral status to beings - ourselves and others - and on the basis of that account identifies multiple criteria for having moral status. It argues that proper application of those criteria should lead us to treat children as of greater moral importance than adults. This conclusion presents a basis for critiquing existing social practices, many of which implicitly presuppose that children occupy an inferior status, and for suggesting how government policy, law, and social life might be different if it reflected an assumption that children are actually of superior status. ER -