PHIL224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Speciesism, Sentience, Anthropocentrism
18 Mar 2016
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Intrinsic value: own direct value to, has some types of direct duies. Instrumental value: hard to ind direct value where we care about it for its use. Direct duies: owed to that being directly (eg. to other humans) Indirect duies: owed to the environment indirectly because we did something which afected something in nature. We want to igure out if the anthropocentric view is ine/enough or if we need non-anthropocentric values. Humans have direct duies to things that have intrinsic values. Indirect duies arise from a direct duty to something else (eg. a direct duty to leave the future as well of as we are leads to an indirect duty to preserve some funcions of the planet). Up unil now, the philosophy discussed has been very human-focused. Individuals: give animals the same basic rights (eg. don"t treat apes merely for their instrumental value)
