PHIL224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dissipative System, Ecofascism, Natural Kind
27 May 2016
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We care about species because we care about us. Aesthetic appreciation we like to look at them, we find them pretty to see, we want to preserve them. Our duties to endangered species might be either direct or indirect. There are problems with the approach from indirect duties. The problem of overstatement; the approach from indirect duties leaves us no room to defend the right of a useless species to exist. A species is a lifeline a historical form or dynamic natural kind (2) the good of the individual can conflict with the good of a species. Eg, death is usually ad for the individual, but it can be good for the species people are suffering then death is a blessing. If there was no death an increase of life and an increase of resources would be needed. Eco-fascism; is the right to subordinate individual interests to collective interests as rolston seems to suggest.
