Conservation Values & Ethics - exam 1 Flashcards
Define/explain these terms:
Philosophy
Ethics
Morals
Summum bonum
What is Environmental Ethics (EE)?
Name and describe 3 EE perspectives.
What are the 3 underlying values or postulates of conservation biology?
What are 3 important distinguishing characteristics of the conservation biology discipline?
Name and explain a critical principle that conservation biology shares with the medical discipline.
Explain and give an example of the key ethical argument for conservation that involves intrinsic value.
Explain the key ethical argument for conservation that involves interdependency. Who most prominently promoted this ethic?
What does it mean that Leopold’s Land Ethic is an ecological-evolutionary ethic?
What key term describes the scale at which he believed we should practice land management?
Explain what he meant by “plain citizens” and include a key term to define this concept.
wolf and mountain lion are the 2 indicator species for the last question
How did Leopold relate ethics and ecological evolution? How did he define an ethic in ecological terms and also in philosophical terms?
Explain the single premise that he believed an ethic rests upon.
What are the 6 “levels” of community membership in Leopold’s land ethic? How do ethical concerns relate to this heirarchy?
Explain the key ethical argument for conservation that involves stewardship.
What types of philosophies underpin this ethic?
What are the Assisi Declarations and when were they made?
What is sanctity and how is it related?
Compare/contrast Buddhism and Hinduism with regards to conservation.
Briefly summarize what Pope Francis wrote about conservation in his Encyclical Letter in 2015.
Who was Thomas Merton and what did he have to say about conservation?
Who is Wendell Berry?
What does he have to say about conservation?
What is a hima and how does it relate to conservation?
Talk about the key arguments for conservation involving neighborly duty and bequest value.
What is environmental justice?
What are 7 components of the key argument for conservation that involves enlightened self-interest?
Talk about 4 categories of instrumental values that serve as key arguments for conservation.
What are the 8 key ethical arguments for preserving biodiversity?
Explain the 1st social complication of preserving biodiversity, involving Masalow’s Hierarchy
Explain the 2nd social complication of preserving biodiversity, involving tribalism
Explain the 3rd social complication of preserving biodiversity, involving death anxiety.
Describe these terms: moral skeptic, post-modernism, nihilism, existential angst
