Citations:sentientism


 * an ethical view that places sentient individuals at the center of moral concern ?


 * 2013, Donato Bergandi, The Structural Links between Ecology, Evolution and Ethics, Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9789400750678), page 127:
 * Versions of individualism include anthropocentrism, sentientism and the variety of biocentrism that I favour.
 * 2018, Robert L. Holmes, Introduction to Applied Ethics, Bloomsbury Publishing (ISBN 9781350029828), page :
 * Therefore there's no bar (on those grounds) to giving BMC [basic moral consideration] to nonhuman things. This doesn't show that sentientism, biocentrism, or ecocentrism are correct; it only shows that they can't be dismissed for the reasons Baxter gives. Sentientism extends BMC to all sentient beings, such as higher animals, as well as to humans.


 * belief in [sentient] life and civilisations on other planets