PHIL 1180 Chapter Notes - Chapter Consumption : Overconsumption, Frugality, Norm (Social)
19 Nov 2016
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There is no con ict between anthropocentric and non anthropocentric goals in moral development of people in industrial countries. Traditional vices greed, avarice, gluttony, envy, luxury, and pride temperance, sel shness and indi erence. Consumerism = relies on vices that harm both people and nature. traditional virtues oppose consumerism. Consumerism harms poor people in the third world. consumerism harms industrial people. consumerism promotes and relies on cultivation of traditional vices, traditional virtues foster human ourishing and envm protection. Nonanthropocentric and anthropocentric view nonantropocentrim environmentalists have reasons to favor traditional virtues bc their exercise tends to protect the nonhuman environment anthroporcentircs have reasons o support traditional virtues bc the exercise promotes human ourishing. Synergistic: nonanthropocentric and anthropocentric are mutually reinforcing. each is stronger in combination than alone. Consumerism dominates us politics no one every talks about reducing us economy. Life is better if everyone is consuming more. Global warming threatens species with extinction with rapid climate change.
