… status: full moral status (FMS). After reviewing which entities have been thought to have
moral status and what is involved in having FMS, as opposed to a lesser degree of moral status, …

… route to attaining status: virtue, and propose a moral virtue theory of status attainment to
provide a generalized account of the role of morality in status attainment. The moral virtue theory …

… entails that a rational being that can, say, neither think of himself as a “we” nor act for the
sake of others, lacks a full moral status, which many (though, I accept, not all) will find intuitive. …

… we are routinely harming trillions of beings with full, equal moral status-a very serious matter.
The commonsense reaction that we need not be so concerned with the question of whether …

… have moral standing, but one may be of a higher moral status. … beings with moral standing
have different moral statuses is … moral theories and is implicit in much pre-theoretical moral …

… The determination of individual moral status is a central factor … theories and their relation to
his views about moral status. Such … his contention that all human beings possess moral status. …

… status while selfishness evokes inferior status. Perceivers who are high in moral character
show stronger perceptions of superior status. … leads to higher status through inducing virtue–…

… purely in terms of an ability for friendliness, either both as a subject and an object (full moral
status), or as an object (partial moral status) of such relations, stand the test of logical scrutiny…

… We are not in full agreement that guilt and empathy are the moral emo- tions and shame is
not. Shame need not always be devastating to the whole self ( Turner and Stets 2006 ). When …

… that precludes killing it without good reason, it is not a sufficient condition for the full moral
status that we want for ourselves and those we care about. Depending upon the definition of '…