Rational Being Alone Have Moral Worth Analysis

Throughout the article, Rational Beings Alone have Moral Worth, it discusses how animals are treated and explains why they are treated in that manner. Kant believes that animals have do not have a self-conscious, they lack a will and they do not have rational thinking since they are only driven by wants and needs; this is why we have no direct duties to them. Animals may not have the highest rational ability but they do have a thought process that allows them to continue to stay alive and meet their ends.
When discussing self-consciousness with animals, no not all animal know that they are a being. There are all types of different self-consciousness and animals can have the negative kind. The negative kind, for example, is if an animal feels like it is being watched or preyed on it runs away or hides. That is considered self-awareness which in other terms is self-consciousness. Kant is …show more content…
Rational thinking is based on thinking of reason and facts. Bringing back up eating and sleeping; this is thinking from reason and fact. It is reasonable to go to sleep when tired and that is also a fact, people and animals sleep when tired. Just because an animal does not have a bed or home like a human does not mean they are not rational. Animals do not have this highly intensive thought process otherwise, they would be exactly like us but they are a product of their environment just as we are. They are living in the wilderness, it gets cold, hot, rains, snows and etc. they do what they see fit to survive and for humans that so happened to be build houses, heaters and air conditioners. Who is Kant to say that because we thought to build a structure to keep us warm means we are smarter and more superior than animals? This all goes back to how Kant gave this list of what makes humans better than animals when in reality it is the same for both just we physically talk and animals have forms of