Monday, January 4, 2010

Environmental Ethics Lecture, 01/04/2009

biocentrism: life itself has intrinsic moral worth

instrumental value: means to an end, timber for making houses, fish for eating, glasses for seeing, shoes.

anthropocentrism:

What really matters?

What/who is a moral patient? “The one who is acted upon”

What has moral standing?

What really works?

-practicality
-cause & effect
-incentive
-probabilities/predictability

Locus of value
-individual
-species
-ecosystems

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