PHIL448 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Land Ethic, Anthropocentrism, Fallacy
22 Dec 2016
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The ethical structure of the day covered wives, but had not yet been extended to human chattels. Ethical criteria have been extended to many fields of conduct (during the thousand years since) An ethic, ecologically, is a limitation on freedom of action in the struggle for existence. An ethic, philosophically, is a differentiation of social from anti- social conduct. An ethic may be regarded as a mode of guidance for meeting ecological situations so new or intricate, or involving such deferred reactions, that the path of social expediency is not discernible to the average individual. The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. Conservation is a state of harmony between man and land. Land health and a b cleavage: group (a) regards the land as soil, and its function as commodity-production, group (b) regards the land as a biota, and its function.
