IDSB04H3 Final: final exam study notes
27 Apr 2011
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Environmental ethics explores the unferlying moral relationship b/w humans and non human world and challenges the assumed moral superiority of human beings via other species. Intellectual: aristotle said, nature has made all things specifically for the sake of man". Religious/traditional view: insist that humans have domination over the earth"s plants and animals. Economist view: capitalism"s commodification of antural resources and the idea of infinite resources to be converted into profits (kovel 2002) Terra nullius: wastelands classical notion of terra nullius refers to lands that were constructed as empty by european colonizers :lands considered to be insufficiently developed, underutilized, idle wastelands . Edward said said, waste, disorder, uncounted resources, was to be converted into productivity . Priciples of 3rd world (vandana shiva/maria mies/ana isla) Women"s interaction with the env. /nature is a reciprocal process. Women"s bodiea the women/nature connection and life cycles are prodcutive in the same way as nature"s forces are productive and creative.
