Secular Environmental Ethic Views

Question 1

Scholars?

Answer 1

A. Naess

G. Sessions

Question 2

Whats the intrinsic worth of the word?

Answer 2

Its biocentric egalitarianism not anthropocentric

Question 3

1?

Answer 3

Well being of all life on earth has value in themselves

Question 4

2?

Answer 4

Richness and diversity of lifeforms contribute to the realisation of these values and are also more values in themselves

Question 5

3?

Answer 5

Humans have no right to reduce this richness and diversity except to satisfy their vital needs

Question 6

Naess come up with?

Answer 6

Ecosophy

Question 7

What’s Ecosophy?

Answer 7

A holistic/ unitary view of ecological balance and harmony in the world

Question 8

Sustainability ought to be judged in what?

Answer 8

in terms of meeting not future human population needs but the needs of biodiversity and health of the earths ecosystems

Question 9

What does Shallow ecology focus more on?

Answer 9

Sustaining the environment for humans alone - earth has instrumental value, we treat it with means to an end