Lecture: "Value in Nature and the Nature of Value," by Holmes Rolston--- DAY 2 Flashcards
What is an organism?
An individual constituted to carry on the activities of life by means of organs separate in function by being mutually dependent: a living being.
What is the definition of species?
A category of biological classification ranking immediately below the genus (e.g. “dog”) or sub genus (e.g. “Labrador”) comprising related organisms or populations potentially capable of interbreeding.
What is an ecosystem?
An enveloping community, a place in space, a process in time, a set of vital relationships.
What is an ecosystem similar to?
An ecosystem is similar to an organism i that it has to have a working system to exist.
In working out value, Rolston goes from small to large: __________-____________-____________
Organisms, species, ecosystems
Rolston claims that to have valuing humans, but not the ecosystem is like….
valuing the golden egg, but not the goose that lays them.
Rolston says that one of the reasons we should value the earth is that from it….
comes everything we value.
