PHL273H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lake Ontario, Negative And Positive Rights, Distributive Justice
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Biocentric ethics any theory that views all life as possessing inherent worth. Reverence-for-life principle: opposes scientific view of nature as value-neutral and mechanistic, seeks to re-establish bond between nature and ethics. At the very moment when, at sunset, we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase reverence for life". I am life which wills to live, in the midst of life which wills to live The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give to every will-to live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own. Not a series of ethical rules but a shift in attitudes: not focused on question what should i do but what type of person should i be? (virtue ethics)
