Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgement
Abbreviations
Introduction

Chapter 1: Self-Consciousness, Rationality and Personhood

1.1. The Idea of Person
1.2. Types of Personhoods
1.3. Personhood of Human Beings
1.4. Personhood of Nonhuman Beings
1.5. Personhood and the Equal Consideration of Interest
1.6. Personhood and Speciesism
1.7. Requirements of Personhood
1.8. Similarities and Dissimilarities between Humans and Nonhumans

Chapter 2: The Idea of Suffering and Its Implications

2.1. The Meaning of Suffering
2.2. Subjects of Suffering
2.3. Reasons for Suffering
2.4. Types of Suffering
2.5. Purpose of Suffering
2.6. Responses to Suffering

Chapter 3: The Idea of Preference Satisfaction

3.1. The Idea of Preference
3.2. Selection of Preferences
3.3. Application of Selected Preferences
       3.3.1. Preferences for Animal Liberation
       3.3.2. Preferences to Veganism and Vegetarianism
       3.3.3. Environmental Preferences
       3.3.4. Preferences to Eradicate Poverty
       3.3.5. Preferences in Medical Assistance
       3.3.6. Preferences in Political Activities

Chapter 4: Effective Moral Altruism at the Top of Preferences

4.1. Effective Altruism
4.2. Altruist and Required Qualities
4.3. Reasons for Altruistic Actions
4.4. Advantages and Disadvantages of Effective Altruism
      4.4.1. Advantages
      4.4.2. Disadvantages
4.5. Argument for Moralism
4.6. Prospects of Effective Moral Altruism
4.7. Moralism and Existential Risks

Chapter 5: Explications and Applications of Preference Utilitarianism

5.1. The Exploration of Preference Utilitarianism
5.2. Convergences
5.3. Divergence
5.4. Absolutism
5.5. Relativism
5.6. Strength
5.7. Weakness
5.8. Two Phases of Preference Utilitarianism

Conclusion
Bibliography

Stephen Francis Kachappilly (Steephen Francis K.F) was born to Mr & Mrs. K.B. Francis and Kochutheresia Francis Kachappilly at Thuruthipuram, in the district of Ernakulam, Kerala, India, on January 06, 1982. He was ordained a Catholic Priest in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchins, (OFM Cap) on May 11, 2011 and a member of Prem Jyoti Capuchin Custody, New Delhi. He has obtained a Master's Degree in Political Science before going to Jnana-Deepa Pune, Maharashtra, for his Masters (licentiate) from 2014-16 and continued with Doctoral Research in Philosophy of Science and Religion from 2016-2022. While at JD, he picked up martial arts from the Wado Ryu Karate-Do Federation of India, which was in the campus. He served in the faculties of a parish priest, financial administrator, dean of studies and manger of a school in various stations of the Custody. He authored a book named Hynakal. Currently he serves in the Catholic Church of Our Lady of Rosary Doha, Qatar, in the Apostolic Vicariate Of Northern Arabia (AVONA).