PHILO - Environmental Ethics Flashcards
Humans and their moral relationship between the biotic and abiotic aspects of the environment
Environmental Ethics
Started to develop in 1960s
Environmental Ethics
centered around the climate change and biodiversity loss
Environmental Ethics
When we value it simply for its own sake. For example, friendship or love, wisdom, pleasure, beauty, or health.
Intrinsic Value
Does not have value on its own. Primarily a causal relation to something having intrinsic or final value.
Instrumental Value
the view that only human interests need to be taken into account
Anthropocentrism
Ethical perspective that all life deserves equal moral consideration and has equal moral standing.
Biocentrism
“One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world.” Who said by?
Buddah
the understanding that ecological groups such as ecosystems, habitats, species, and populations are all parts of environmental concern
Ecocentrism
Politics and Environmental Ethics:
Realists vs Fundamentalists
Realists =
environmental reform
Fundamentalists =
radical change
was the Norwegian philosopher who coined the term “Deep Ecology”
Arne Naess
more recent branch of ecological philosophy
Deep Ecology
Value of human and non-human life as well as the importance of the ecosystem and natural processes
Deep Ecology
based on a deep experience with nature
Deep Ecology
8 guidelines to practicing deep ecology
The Deep Ecology Platform
Another founder of Deep Ecology
Aldo Leopold
His experience influenced the way he saw nature and changed his belief that humans were superior to the rest of natuer
Aldo Leopold
“there was something new to me in those eyes, something known only to her and to the mountain. I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunter’s paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.” Was said by?
Aldo Leopold