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Environmental ethics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Environmental ethics is the part of environmental philosophy which considers extending the traditional boundaries of ethics from solely including humans to including the non-human world. It exerts in...
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Eastern civilization has a far less anthropocentric view, partially because their religion doesn't hold human beings above all of the rest of existence. The roots dating back to Aristotle and other Greek and Roman literature isn't the origin of anthropocentric spread in Western civilization I'm talking about.
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Despite this, however, most environmental philosophers feel that such anthropocentric ethics do not go far enough, and want to extend moral standing beyond humanity.
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Anthropocentric ethics evaluates environmental issues on the basis of how they affect human needs and attaches primary importance to human interests. The term contrasts ... Edwin Mellen...masculinity and animals in sporting culture, the emergence of the human as animal and the influence of Darwin's Origin of Species...
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ANTHROPOCENTRIC LUTHER; Noel F. R. Guzman ... So, any anthropology that is based on the individual betrays humanity’s “dust factor,” the common origin of all creatures. When anthropology is divorced from nature, that anthropology becomes dualistic and destructive.
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Anthropocentric ethics deny that animals that can suffer have interests that people should respect. William; ... Furthermore, the integration of the purposes of species with the purposes of other species is a valuable attribute of evolution and a foundation of the origin of species. An unconditional appreciation of...
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Nonanthropocentrists countered that an anthropocentric environmental ethic is inadequate, ... It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”2 A Western precedent for ethical holism can be found in Charles Darwin’s account of the origin and evolution of ethics in the Descent of Man, from which Leopold seems to have borrowed heavily.
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