PHIL 2380 Final: PHIL 2380A (Entire course notes)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2380
• Professor: Devin Shaw

Document Summary

Phil 2380a: nature is the whole of the environment in which humans live, nature is sacred, nature is a receptacle full of objects that humans can exploit to survive. Descriptive claim: (cid:862)many people believe that nature should be used freely to benefit hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)it(cid:455). (cid:863), (cid:862)people a(cid:396)e (cid:374)atu(cid:396)all(cid:455) (cid:448)iole(cid:374)t. (cid:863) Environment and society, chapter 1: introduction: comparing environment and society, this is (cid:449)h(cid:455) the(cid:455) (cid:271)egi(cid:374) (cid:449)ith a(cid:374) e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple of (cid:862)(cid:396)e(cid:449)ildi(cid:374)g(cid:863) i(cid:374) oost(cid:448)aa(cid:396)de(cid:396)splasse(cid:374) (introducing a kind of ecosystem that existed 10,000 years ago) Anthropocene: a metaphoric term applied to our current era, when people exert enormous influence on environments all around the earth, but where control of these environments and their enormously complex ecologies is inevitably elusive. Loss of control is failure from the perspective that humans need control over nature in order for us to survive or maintain a good quality of life.