Cmpgroup7lecturenotesmar17
Singer
- Calls a person who does not think animal suffering matters a, "speciest".
- Felt that Bentham considered the suffering of animals.
- epicureanism- is a form of hedonism, someone who gets pleasure from little things in daily life (example: a hippy getting pleasures from living a "simple-life".
- Bentham says pain & pleasure are biological, stemming from our central nervous system.
- Pleasure & pain are feedback mechanisms.