PHILO - Environmental Ethics

Question 1

Humans and their moral relationship between the biotic and abiotic aspects of the environment

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Environmental Ethics

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Started to develop in 1960s

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Environmental Ethics

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centered around the climate change and biodiversity loss

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Environmental Ethics

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When we value it simply for its own sake. For example, friendship or love, wisdom, pleasure, beauty, or health.

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Intrinsic Value

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Does not have value on its own. Primarily a causal relation to something having intrinsic or final value.

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Instrumental Value

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the view that only human interests need to be taken into account

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Anthropocentrism

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Ethical perspective that all life deserves equal moral consideration and has equal moral standing.

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Biocentrism

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“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?

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Buddah

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the understanding that ecological groups such as ecosystems, habitats, species, and populations are all parts of environmental concern

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Ecocentrism

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Politics and Environmental Ethics:

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Realists vs Fundamentalists

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Realists =

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environmental reform

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Fundamentalists =

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radical change

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was the Norwegian philosopher who coined the term “Deep Ecology”

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Arne Naess

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more recent branch of ecological philosophy

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Deep Ecology

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Value of human and non-human life as well as the importance of the ecosystem and natural processes

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Deep Ecology

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based on a deep experience with nature

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Deep Ecology

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8 guidelines to practicing deep ecology

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The Deep Ecology Platform

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Another founder of Deep Ecology

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Aldo Leopold

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His experience influenced the way he saw nature and changed his belief that humans were superior to the rest of natuer

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Aldo Leopold

Question 19

“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?

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Aldo Leopold