1. Introduction: The Challenge of Environmental Ethics ... Many traditional western ethical perspectives, however, are anthropocentric or human-centered in that either they assign intrinsic value to human beings alone (i.e., what we might call anthropocentric in a strong sense) or they assign a significantly greater amount...
plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-environmental/ plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-environmental/
Four Broad Approaches to Ethics ... 1. Anthropocentric Ethics: ... 1. A professional engineer or geoscientist shall recognize that professional ethics are founded upon integrity, competence and devotion to service and to the advancement of human welfare. This concept shall guide the conduct of the professional engineer...
www.ucs.mun.ca/~alatus/6101/Lecture8Environment.html
The fundamental issue in environmental ethics is whether there can be a non-anthropocentric environmental ethic -- that is a basis for right and wrong action concerning the environment which is not grounded solely in human concerns.
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Julio Carrizosa emphasizes the necessity of an anthropocentric ethics, which is not anthropocentrist, and is governed by Jonas' Principle of Responsibility: "man is the only being known by us who can have responsibility.
www.cep.unt.edu/iseepapers/noguera-eng.pdf
AN ANTHROPOCENTRIC ETHICS. TOWARDS ANIMALS AND NATURE. A.T. NUYEN. University of Queensland. Over the last ten years or so, the old debate about human ...
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Traditional ethical theories are characterized as anthropocentric because they regard only humans or human experience (or reason) as having intrinsic ethical worth. Everything else is valuable only as a ... Thus, philosophers who follow Leopold have rejected utilitarianism along with anthropocentric conceptions of ethics.
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View Non-anthropocentric personhood ethics ... Additionally, non-anthropocentric ethics extends varying degrees of personhood to non-human entities on the basis of intellectual complexity. Thus, cetaceans or great apes receive some rough moral parity with humans.
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BIOCENTRIC (LIFE-CENTERED) ETHICS ... precursor of a biocentric ethics is Albert Schweitzer's "reverence for life" principle ... unlike Classical ethics, it focuses on attitudes and character rather than moral rules...
www.carroll.edu/~msmillie/envethics/biocentric.htm www.carroll.edu/~msmillie/envethics/biocentric.htm
The upshot of this is that, contrary to those who argue that environmental ethicists ought to move beyond the traditional anthropocentric-nonanthropocentric debate, the foundational debate about interspecific egalitarianism will continue to issue in substantial debates about environmental policy formation.
www.erica.demon.co.uk/EV/EV517.html
Environmental ethics - Anthropocentrism ... A Wisdom Archive on Environmental ethics - Anthropocentrism ... A selection of articles related to Environmental ethics - Anthropocentris...
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