PHIL 120W Lecture Notes - Teddy Bear, Sentience, Anthropocentrism
5 Dec 2012
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W e d n e s d a y n o v e m b e r 2 8 t h. T hu r s d a y n o v e m b e r 2 9 t h. R o l l i n s p a g e 6 3 6. Don"t have to read past the first paragraph on 641. Doesn"t just include living things; also has mountains, rivers, etc. Depending on view, you may consider only living things, or you may include non-living things. Mistreating the environment would affect human-life so it is therefore wrong. Nature has a dependent value (it"s value is dependent on our needs) Instrumental value: a means for our ends. Nature has no interests of its own. We have an obligation to treat the environment better, regardless of how it affects humans. Nature has an intrinsic and independent value (it"s value is independent from our needs)
