Unit 7: Biocentric Justifications

Question 1

Who says “super killers” are a threat to our environment and what are they?

Answer 1

Humans, Rolston calls super killers because our actions have endangered our ecosystem and planet as we know it.

Question 2

What is referential ecology and who coined it?

Answer 2

Kumar says it
Emphasizes the importance or referencing and respecting diverse cultural and spiritual perspectives with the environment

Suggest we can be more inclusive and have a sustainable approach with
Cultural diversity
Interconnectedness
Spiritual dimensions
Holistic approach

Question 3

Central tenet of Taylor’s theory is

Answer 3

Ethics should go above humans to include all other living things in their environment

Prompts repeat for nature and argues humans need to consider how we are within the environment not the center of it

Question 4

Is cultural protection good for animals ?

Answer 4

Rolston argues it cna benefit the animals by domesticating them it acts to their detriment.
Tends to transform their wildness into human artifact, wether food or pet or clothes it is more beneficial to humans than the animals themselves

Question 5

4 rules of duty

Answer 5

Nonmaleficence
Non interference
Fidelity
Restitutive justice