The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy, 2nd Edition
Environmental philosophy 2.3 A typology of environmental philosophy Shallowperspectives such as ‘resource conservationism’ and ...
THEORY putsit,is‘atheoryoftheGood...[which]should tell us bothwhatis to be valued andwhy’(p. 19). It should provide a set of pri ...
Environmental philosophy Figure 2.2What entities have value? SENTIENT BEINGS INDIVIDUAL ENTITIES INDIVIDUAL LIVING PLANTS/TREES ...
THEORY 2.4 The eight-point platform of deep ecology The flourishing of human and non-human life on Earth has value in itself. T ...
Environmental philosophy The second theme in Naess’s work, underpinning the first claim that nature has intrinsic value, is a me ...
THEORY Yetthe idea that someone might have reason to act because they are part of a wider entity, which can itself flourish or p ...
Environmental philosophy rights of individual babies be upheld against the good of the larger biotic community? Some system for ...
THEORY weshare no sense of interdependence or community, such as Sudanese famine victims. In this sense, the community argument ...
Environmental philosophy Rather than issue moral injunctions, Fox prefers an ‘experiential invita- tion’ to individuals to exper ...
THEORY intrinsic value. In practical terms, it is questionable whether the individu- alistic focus on the self can provide a bas ...
Environmental philosophy 2.5 Conservationism and preservationism Conservationism and preservationism were two early currents of ...
THEORY Conversely, a mouse does have an interest in not being treated in this way because it will suffer. Singer argues that the ...
Environmental philosophy reason means that animals cannot enter into reciprocal agreements or dis- charge moral obligations, so ...
THEORY 2.6 The Great Ape Project Based on a book by Cavalieri and Singer (1993), the Great Ape Project seeks: ‘the extension of ...
Environmental philosophy environmental, or ecological, ethic (not that it claims to do so). The focus on the individual creature ...
THEORY However, at root, this argument appears to be qualitatively similar to other instrumental anthropocentric arguments that ...
Environmental philosophy of value based on the idea of ‘naturalness’. He argues that natural objects have value because they are ...
THEORY Despite the prima-facie anthropocentrism, O’Neill claims that this involves no reversion to narrow instrumentalism. Rathe ...
Environmental philosophy This observation resonates with the ‘convergence thesis’ outlined by Nor- ton ( 1991 ).^20 He argues th ...
THEORY have fallen back onto hierarchies of value which always concede priority tohuman interests in all critical inter-species ...
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