Growing Moral Relations

Acknowledgements Introduction – The Problem of Moral Status PART I: MORAL ONTOLOGIES: FROM INDIVIDUAL TO RELATIONAL DOGMAS Individual Properties Appearance and Virtue Relations: Communitarian and Metaphysical Relations: Natural and Social Relations: Hybrid and Environmental Conclusion Part I: Diogenes's Challenge PART II: MORAL STATUS ASCRIPTION AND ITS CONDITIONS OF POSSIBILITY: A TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENT Words and Sentences: Forms of Language Use Societies and Cultures (1): Forms of Living Together Societies and Cultures (2): Forms of Life Bodies and Things: Forms of Feeling and Making Spirits and Gods: Forms of Religion Fences, Walls, and Maps: Forms of Historical Space Moral Metamorphosis: Concluding the Transcendental Argument General Conclusion References Index