Environmental ethics - Kantian ethics
- Created by: Alasdair
- Created on: 21-05-17 15:55
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- Kantian Ethics and the Environment
- Outline
- If every stopped polluting universally the environment would be better
- Argues you can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat animals
- Kant does have awe for nature, not to be exploited for our needs
- X can''t use people as a means to an end.
- Can't stop people harming the environment to save the planet
- Do we have a duty to protect environment or at least self-protection?
- If deforestation happens universally: human race could not survive
- Emotions cannot be taken into account: is this possible when looking at the environmental crisis?
- Animals and nature have no intrinsic worth. Categorical imperative = only humans
- Positives
- Much less subjective
- Fixed principles - more objective
- Gives animals intrinsic worth
- Creates sustainability
- Universalisability - if people stopped polluting universally, environment would be better
- Criticisms
- Arguably not universalisable
- Human centric approach
- Link to shallow ecology
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