Question 20

Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. Animals have an interest in fulfilling their basic needs, but also in avoiding suffering, and thus we ought to extend moral consideration.
2. Singer viewed himself as a utilitarian, and presents a direct moral theory concerning animal rights, in contrast to indirect positions, such as welfarist views.
3. He argued for extending moral consideration to animals because, similar to humans, animals have certain significant interests.
4. The event that publicly announced animal rights as a legitimate issue within contemporary philosophy was Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation text in 1975.
5. As such, we ought to view their interests alongside and equal to human interests, which results in humans having direct moral duties towards animals.


Correct Answer: 1

Solution

Sentence 1 is the odd sentence.

The correct sequence is 4-2-3-5.

Sentence 4
 introduces the historical significance of Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation, which set the stage for the discussion of animal rights in contemporary philosophy.
Sentence 2 expands on Singer’s philosophy, explaining his utilitarian view and how it contrasts with other indirect moral views on animal rights.
Sentence 3 then explains the core of Singer’s argument, that animals, like humans, have significant interests and deserve moral consideration.
Sentence 5
concludes Singer's argument by stating that humans should treat animal interests equally to human interests, leading to moral duties towards animals.

Sentence 1 is the odd one out
because it does not focus on Peter Singer's views on animal rights and the moral obligations humans have towards animals, which is the main theme of the paragraph.


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