DeWaal Flashcards
Examples of De Waals argument
Kin selection (family) Reciprocity (not family)
What does DeWaal argue against?
The statement that cooperation is unique to humans
Singer’s main points
Principle of equality
Animal experimentation/use of animals for food
Singer on equality
Everyone is equal if they are capable of having interests
Ex) liberation movements
Singer on animal experimentation/use of animals for food
If you can use an animal to save thousands, it’s ok.
Not ok for trivial, superficial reasons
Ok to eat animals if necessary
Connect singers 2 arguments
Singer establishes ground for equality, convince you re: animal liberation
Objections to singer
- How do we know animals can feel pain?
2. Animals eat each other, so why shouldn’t we eat them?
Sagoff distinguishes between
Environmentalism and animal liberation
Environmentalism:
Preserve ecosystems
Animal liberation:
Sentient beings
Purdue vs Mother Nature
Animal liberationists should worry more about nature killing animals than humans killing them for consumption
Diamond
Wildlife management
Diamonds human interference
Keystone species Habitat fragmentation (national parks disrupt nature)
Guha is against
Deep ecology
Guha is for
Environmental preservation
Biocentric
According to Guha, the anthropocentrism/biocentrism dichotomy is _______because
Irrelevant, emphasis on wilderness is harmful
According to Guha, the fundamental ecological problems are
Overconsumption
Growing militarism
(Threats to human survival)
Problems with allocating wild lands in the 3rd world
Neglect of the more pressing environmental problems of the poor
Harmful (transfer from poor to rich)
Willet
Ecological restoration should restore *function, and the original state
