PHIL 1180 Chapter Notes - Chapter 45: Supervenience, Chauvinism
5 May 2016
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Some argue that an environmental ethic with a meta-ethic of objectivism must be false or incorrect, while others argue that subjectivism is the correct meta-ethic. Meta-ethical objectivism: some see objectivism as necessary for an environmental ethic. Gives support to the claim that the natural environment has intrinsic value separate of any assignment of value to it by valuers. Provides a theoretical base for the creation of a competing normative ethic: regan. An object has inherent goodness utterly independently of any valuer. Inherent goodness is independent of the attitudinal states of all conscious beings. Inherent goodness is a supervenient property (i. e. determined by its lesser properties) Objects possessing inherent goodness deserve admiring respect. There is value in the world and it can be discovered: if this view is open, an environmental ethic is possible, but not without many problems that make it an unattractive meta-ethic. Meta-ethical objectivists need to explain what kind of thing that a non-natural intrinsic value is.
