PHIL 118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Environmental Ethics
28 Jun 2018
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What obligations do businesses have to environment?
What is the relationship of government and business?
Approach 1: no obligations, just may not lobby on environmental matters
Approach 2: government cannot interfere, business' concerns and responsibility
Approach 3: government make legislation, regardless of personal ethics, corporations focus on profit
(p.522)
But all approaches do not realize corporations are always part of society
Cannot be part of problem and must help in the solution
What rationale should we use to make environmental decisions?
Bad approach: good environmental ethics = good business
Moral not always profitable
Profit vs morality > profit will win
Always have moral duty
Shallow/human-centric ecology approach:
Mitigate harm to non-human based on our relation to them
No moral duty to non-human inherently
Deep ecology/naturalist approach:
Moral duty because of non-human inherent nature
Q: where does value come from?
Human-centric more appealing to society.
But not strong enough morally, need to acknowledge own place in nature.
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Document Summary
Approach 1: no obligations, just may not lobby on environmental matters. Approach 2: government cannot interfere, business" concerns and responsibility. Approach 3: government make legislation, regardless of personal ethics, corporations focus on profit (p. 522) But all approaches do not realize corporations are always part of society. Cannot be part of problem and must help in the solution. Bad approach: good environmental ethics = good business. Profit vs morality > profit will win. Mitigate harm to non-human based on our relation to them. Moral duty because of non-human inherent nature.
