PHIL 2750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ecocentrism, Deep Ecology, Environmentalism
1 Aug 2018
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Values in and duies to the natural world h. rolson iii. The shallow and the deep, long-range ecology movement: a summary a. naess. Bio-egalitarianism: veneraion of all forms of life as equal value of diversity and symbiosis (cooperaion) General thought: much of human acivity is detrimental to the environment. Make changes of unprecedented violence, rapidity, and scope . Efects more comprehensive than is intended or foreseen (leopold) Profound human ignorance of biospherical relaionships and therefore this efect of disturbances (naess) Leopold and naess are saying the same thing above. Environmental ethics: respect for life as well as non-human objects. All forms of life, regardless of relaionship to conscious experience. What is good for an individual is diferent than what is good for a species (whole) Ralston iii seems to hold that insofar as something is a specimen of a kind, then, in normal condiions, it is a good specimen of its kind.
