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Ep. 301: Is Abortion Morally Permissible? (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Moral Status, Moral Status as in Personhood?

Mark O'Mara: Did you guys read the Stanford article on moral status? I forgot if we like officially signed that. But Marquis is interesting because he sort of sidesteps the concept of personhood and tries to tell us why killing is wrong. And so that's an example of the kind of very, very abstract justification that we might get for treating persons in a certain way or other.

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