PHIL 1180 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Ecofascism, Misanthropy, Nominalism
3 Nov 2016
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Chapter 11 ecocentrism: aldo leopold"s land ethic. Argument for the land ethic the relationship between people and the system as a whole as being prior in importance than its individual parts. Land ethic: a thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. Premise 1: communitarian concept of ethics questions about ethics, how to behave only arise in community context. how we ought to behave in a community. Premise 5: good member involves at minimum not disrupting or destroying it social vs anti-social conduct in human communities not undermining its health and good-functioning. Premise 6: we ought to act in ways that preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the. Lack of conceptual clarity misapplication of moral concept. Problematic implications: ecofascism and misanthropy subordination of individual to the communal good leads to unacceptable implications.
