HLTH 334 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Holocene Extinction, Normative Ethics, Anthropocene
20 Apr 2016
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A theory in normative ethics holding that the best moral action is the one that maximizes utility. Utility is defined in various ways, but is usually related to the well- being of sentient entities. An effort to provide an answer to the practical question what ought a man to do? its answer is that he ought to act so as to produce the best consequences possible. Theory of method of providing the greatest good to the greatest number of people: disability studies. An academic discipline that examines the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability as a social construct: anthropocene a proposed epoch that begins when human activities started to have a significant global impact on earth"s geology and ecosystems. Where traces of human activity are visible in the strata: they effect the construction of the earth they move more matter around the. Earth than natural processes do: sixth extinction.
