PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Elliott Sober, Environmentalism, Forego

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14 Dec 2017
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Assigning or knowing the value of species and ecosystems. Takes issue with the lack of sound reasoning for our ethical judgements about the environment beyond its instrumental value. Instrumental value: the value that something has because it helps us to get or achieve some other thing. Identify which things matter morally and which do not. Explain which properties or features those individuals have that give rise to our moral duties towards them. Chosen properties/features cannot result in conclusion that we have moral obligations to all things. By failing to protect x, x will suffer. Much of the environment can"t feel pain (forests, mountains, rivers) It is far worse to kill an animal of an endangered species that it. It is far worse to kill an animal of an endangered species that it is to kill another, even if doing so causes equal amounts of pain.

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