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Title: Environmental Ethics


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Environmental Ethics Philosophies
  • Biocentric - views all living things as having
    inherent worth (Albert Schweitzer)
  • Ecocentric - holistic, considering the whole to
    have an inherent value and therefore deserving of
    moral consideration independent of human-imposed
    values (Aldo Leopold)

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Environmental Ethics Philosophies
  • ecofeminism - analyzes societal and cultural
    traits that may have led to the degradation of
    the environment specifically concentrates on the
    oppression of women by a traditional patriarchal
    society as a major form of social domination that
    has precipitated other forms of exploitation and
    domination, including exploitation of the
    environment.

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Environmental Ethics Philosophies
  • Deep ecology - holistic and extreme
    non-anthropocentric perspective, rejecting the
    human vs environment dichotomy (humans only one
    species among equal species) (Norwegian
    philosopher Arne Naess)

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Environmental Ethics Philosophies
  • ecofeminism - analyzes societal and cultural
    traits that may have led to the degradation of
    the environment specifically concentrates on the
    oppression of women by a traditional patriarchal
    society as a major form of social domination that
    has precipitated other forms of exploitation and
    domination, including exploitation of the
    environment.

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