THE HUMAN PERSON AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT (4)

Question 1

• Disicipline that studies the moral relationships of human beings with the environment and its non-human contents.
  -Tackle issues that is related to humanity’s role in the natural world, the interaction between nature and human activities, and humanity’s response to environmental challenges.

Answer 1

ENVRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY

Question 2

-Considers humans to be the most important species with superior worth than other species.
-Human beings continually destroy and consume natural resources for their own interest to the point of degradation.

Answer 2

ANTHROPOCENTRISM

Question 3

-This view believes that human kind is merely a portion of the biological system or community and that we have a vital role as guardians of nature.

Answer 3

ECOCENTRISM

Question 4

-Humans are not the only important species.
-Human are equal members of the environment and that humans and other living things are independent.

Answer 4

BIOCENTRISM