ENV100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: W. B. Yeats, Henry David Thoreau, Immanuel Kant

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV100H1
• Professor: Stephen Scharper

Document Summary

Known for creating social movements outside of the context of nature. Father read to him thoreau"s book, walden. Inspired by thoreau to write a poem about peace with nature. Values: state of affairs by and for people. Description vs. prescription (i. e. what it is vs. what it ought to be) Fact vs. value (i. e. good or bad decision making) Law vs. morality (legality is not the same as morality) Other aspects: character or virtue ethics (i. e. shaping character) and discernment. Deontological or non-consequentialist: categorical imperative (i. e. transform individual action into universal law) He interprets it as doing something regardless of consequences: divine command: do something because god tells you to. Subjectivism: morality determined by the individual. The land ethic: the dawn of environmental ethics by aldo leopold. 1970s: environmental assessments: ex: putting a dam on a river. Uncertainty in future potential actions (ex: what would happen if a dam is placed on a river?)