PHIL 150B1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Truth-Bearer, Ecocentrism, Anthropocentrism
21 Feb 2018
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Notes the environment, consumption, and climate change. Chapter 15 introduction: pages 684-691: expanding the scope of direct moral standing. Anthropocentrism: the only beings who possess direct moral standing are human beings. All other beings (living and nonliving) are of mere moral concern. Sentientism: all and only sentient creatures creatures who have the capacity to experience pleasure and pain have direct moral standing. Biocentrism: all living beings because they are living possess direct moral standing. Thus, morality includes requirements that include direct moral concern for all living beings. Ecocentrism: the primary bearers of direct moral standing are ecosystems in virtue of their functional integrity. Morality involves moral obligations to maintain the functional integrity of ecosystems and because ecosystems are primary bearers of moral standing, their preservation takes moral precedence over concern for individual things and creatures that compose the system. Atomism: the view that primary items of moral appraisal are individuals.
