PHILOS 3L03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Deep Ecology, Environmental Philosophy, Friedrich Nietzsche
22 May 2017
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Support your position with an example in either direction. In plumwood"s piece, she addresses the androcentrism in deep ecology which puts men in the centre of environmental philosophy and environmental concerns. She also addresses how women and their parallels to nature has been used as a "major" tool for oppression. For example, women have been in equated with various aspects of nature, such as: emotions, body, passions and the. This has resulted in women being included in the "sphere of nature" which excludes them from the "sphere of rationality" by their very inclusion in the "sphere of nature". Plumwood attempts to escape this system of "exclusion by inclusion" which is a result of being included in the irrational sphere which excludes women from the rational sphere. Another reason that the nature/women parallels are important is because they confirm masculine power.
