Environmental Ethics
- Created by: Bethan Hyde
- Created on: 28-03-14 08:59
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- Environmental Ethics
- What is environmental ethics?
- The relationship between people and the natural world and the decisions people have to make about the environment.
- There are not currently any agreed ethics for environmental issues.
- Christian Approaches
- Dominion
- nature itself has no intrinsic value- humnans only important life formas
- God has special concern for humanity- because they are made in his image.
- Doesn't rule out the preservation of nature- as long as the concern for nature is to do with humanity's well-being.
- Bible- all of creation has intrinsic value.
- ST FRANCIS of ASSISI- God communicates through the natural world, so it is a sin to destroy the natural world.---
- Natural world is a sign of Gods goodness, its purpose is to inspire our respect and love.
- all creatures have the same ability and duty to worship God-- all part of the same creation -- all have the same intrinsic value.
- Stewardship-- Genesis 2 'to till it and keep it'
- Genesis b3-- mans sin- reason for environemtnal problems because at this point we became bad stewards
- Rapture theory
- concern for the environment is irrelevant because we have no future- second coming of Jesus- destruction of environment.
- Secular environmental ethics
- Deep ecology
- Aldo Leopald
- Aarne Naess
- Gaia hypothesis
- James Lovelock- self regulating organism
- Conservation ethics- shallow ecology
- Worth of environment- related to its worth of humans
- Biodiversity
- Micheal la Bossiere
- Peter singer
- Deep ecology
- Utilitarianism
- long term against short term
- Qunatative
- Bentham
- Qualitative- Mill
- Kant
- Means to an end
- Killing for food is fine- killing for sport is wrong
- people who torture animals are likely to do the same to humans\
- Categorical imperative- universal law
- What is environmental ethics?
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