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1. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 6 > Issue: 2
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2. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 6 > Issue: 2
On Studying Environmental Ethics
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3. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 6 > Issue: 2
Ernest Partridge Nature as a Moral Resource
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In this paper I attempt a moral justification of protecting wild species, ecosystems, and landscapes, a justification not directly grounded in appeals to human benefit. I begin with a description of anthropocentric and ecosystemic approaches to the valuing of nature and offer some empirical arguments in support of the ecosystemic view. I suggest that human beings have a genetic need for natural environments, and that the direct experience of wild nature is an intrinsic good. Theoretical coherence and scope is another advantage of the ecological perspective over the anthropocentric view. Turning to moral psychology, I argue that human beings have a fundamental need to care for things outside themselves and that this need is suitably met, and human life enriched, by a transcending concern for the well-being of natural species, habitats, and ecosystems . These considerations are joined with the ecological point of view to yield the conclusion that a self-transcending concern for the welfare of wild species and their habitats enriches the quality of moral life. Persons with genuine reverence and respect for wild creatures and their habitats will enjoy greater fulfilment in their own lives and be better neighbors toeach other.
4. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 6 > Issue: 2
Bryan G. Norton Environmental Ethics and Weak Anthropocentrism
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The assumption that environmental ethics must be nonanthropocentric in order to be adequate is mistaken. There are two forms of anthropocentrism, weak and strong, and weak anthropocentrism is adequate to support an environmental ethic. Environmental ethics is, however, distinctive vis-a-vis standard British and American ethical systems because, in order to be adequate, it must be nonindividualistic.Environmental ethics involves decisions on two levels, one kind of which differs from usual decisions affecting individual fairness while the other does not. The latter, called allocational decisions, are not reducible to the former and govern the use of resources across extended time. Weak anthropocentrism provides a basis for criticizing individual, consumptive needs and can provide the basis for adjudicatingbetween these levels, thereby providing an adequate basis for environmental ethics without the questionable ontological commitments made by nonanthropocentrists in attributing intrinsie value to nature.
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5. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 6 > Issue: 2
Paul W. Taylor Are Humans Superior to Animals and Plants?
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Louis G. Lombardi’s arguments in support of the claim that humans have greater inherent worth than other living things provide a clear account of how it is possible to conceive of the relation between humans and nonhumans in this way. Upon examining his arguments, however, it seems that he does not succeed in establishing any reason to believe that humans actually do have greater inherent worth than animals and plants.
6. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 6 > Issue: 2
Daniel L. Dustin, Leo H. McAvoy Toward Environmental Eolithism
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We apply two contrasting principles of human workmanship, the principles of design and eolithism, to the issue of responsible environmental stewardship. Both principles are described and analyzed in an environmental context with an emphasis on the weaknesses of the more popular design principle and the strengths of the lesser known eolithic principle. We conclude with a discussion of the principles’complementary potential for environmental planning and management.
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7. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 6 > Issue: 2
Geroge Sessions Eco-Philosophy: Designing New Tactics for Living
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Karen J. Warren Environmental Ethics
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9. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 6 > Issue: 2
NEWS AND NOTES (2)
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10. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 6 > Issue: 2
Richard A. Watson The Fate of the Earth
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Iris Marion Young Marxism and Domination
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