ENVS 1000 Final: EXAM REVIEW

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Instrumental is the value of things as means to further some other ends, whereas intrinsic is the value of things as ends in themselves regardless of whether they are also useful as means to other ends. Human-centered in that either they assign intrinsic value to human beings alone, or they assign a significantly greater amount of intrinsic value to human beings than to any nonhuman things. What is enlightened or prudential anthropocentrism? the view that all the moral duties we have towards the environment are derived from our direct duties to its human inhabitants. What is deep ecology? the view that all living things are alike in having value in their own right, independent of their usefulness to others. (everything has intrinsic value) Relationalism? organisms are best understood as knots in the biospherical net. The identity of a living thing is essentially constituted by its relations to other things in the world, especially its ecological relations to other living things.

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