The Intrinsic Value Of Nature
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Author | : Michael J. Zimmerman |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2001-08-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1461610125 |
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At the heart of ethics reside the concepts of good and bad; they are at work when we assess whether a person is virtuous or vicious, an act right or wrong, a decision defensible or indefensible, a goal desirable or undesirable. But there are many varieties of goodness and badness. At their core lie intrinsic goodness and badness, the sort of value that something has for its own sake. It is in virtue of intrinsic value that other types of value may be understood, and hence that we can begin to come to terms with questions of virtue and vice, right and wrong, and so on. This book investigates the nature of intrinsic value: just what it is for something to be valuable for its own sake, just what sort of thing can have such value, just how such a value is to be computed. In the final chapter, the fruits of this investigation are applied to a discussion of pleasure, pain, and displeasure and also of moral virtue and vice, in order to determine just what value lies within these phenomena.
Author | : Leena Vilkka |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 900449510X |
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What is intrinsic value? What is the origin of value? Are people always superior to nature? This book is a philosophical analysis of the human relationship to the non-human world. It is a pioneering study of the philosophy of nature-conservation in relation to the discussion of intrinsic value. Vilkka develops a naturalistic or naturocentric theory of value that is based on ethical extensionism and pluralism. Vilkka analyzes natural values and environmental attitudes: zoocentrism, biocentrism, and ecocentrism. This book forms a taxonomy for nature having intrinsic value. The theory of intrinsic value is based on naturocentric and naturogenic values. The book questions the thesis of weak anthropocentrism that denies the existence of naturogenic values. In Vilkka's theory, animals and nature are the origin of value. She defends the existence of zoogenic and biogenic values in the non-human world and discusses the possibility of ecogenic value, nature as a whole having value independent of human or animal minds. Vilkka analyzes the goodness and rights of nature, the problem of priorities, and ecological humanism. A naturocentric recommendation is that the well-being of animals and nature should have priority over human values at least in some real decision contexts. Ecological humanism recommends an attitude of respect for people, animals, and nature. The book includes an extensive glossary, index, and bibliography.
Author | : Nicholas Agar |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780231117869 |
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Are bacteriophage T4 and the long-nosed elephant fish valuable in their own right? Agar defends an affirmative answer to this question by arguing that anything living is intrinsically valuable. The result is a challenge to prevailing definitions of value and a call for a scientifically-informed appreciation of nature.
Author | : Scott A. Davison |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2012-01-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1441162828 |
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An innovative and concise exploration of the foundations of ethics.
Author | : Nirmalya Narayan Chakraborty |
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Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2004 |
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Author | : Jonathan A. Newman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2017-10-05 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0521768861 |
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This interdisciplinary and accessible book will help environmentalists to make stronger arguments in favor of conserving biodiversity.
Author | : Paul W. Taylor |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2011-04-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1400838533 |
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What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth? In Respect for Nature, Paul Taylor draws on biology, moral philosophy, and environmental science to defend a biocentric environmental ethic in which all life has value. Without making claims for the moral rights of plants and animals, he offers a reasoned alternative to the prevailing anthropocentric view--that the natural environment and its wildlife are valued only as objects for human use or enjoyment. Respect for Nature provides both a full account of the biological conditions for life--human or otherwise--and a comprehensive view of the complex relationship between human beings and the whole of nature. This classic book remains a valuable resource for philosophers, biologists, and environmentalists alike--along with all those who care about the future of life on Earth. A new foreword by Dale Jamieson looks at how the original 1986 edition of Respect for Nature has shaped the study of environmental ethics, and shows why the work remains relevant to debates today.
Author | : Ian A. Smith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2016-01-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317605977 |
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Why save endangered species without clear aesthetic, economic, or ecosystemic value? This book takes on this challenging question through an account of the intrinsic goods of species. Ian A. Smith argues that a species’ intrinsic value stems from its ability to flourish—its organisms continuing to reproduce successfully and it avoiding extinction—which helps to demonstrate a further claim, that humans ought to preserve species that we have endangered. He shows our need to exercise humility in our relations with endangered species through the preservation of their intrinsic goods, which in turn rectifies our degradation of their importance. Unique in its appeal to virtue ethics and to species concepts, The Intrinsic Value of Endangered Species is an important resource for scholars working in environmental ethics and the philosophy of biology.
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Appraisal of archival materials |
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Author | : J. Baird Callicott |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2014-01-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199324905 |
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Bringing together ecology, evolutionary moral psychology, and environmental ethics, J. Baird Callicott counters the narrative of blame and despair that prevails in contemporary discussions of climate ethics and offers a fresh, more optimistic approach. Whereas other environmental ethicists limit themselves to what Callicott calls Rational Individualism in discussing the problem of climate change only to conclude that, essentially, there is little hope that anything will be done in the face of its "perfect moral storm" (in Stephen Gardiner's words), Callicott refuses to accept this view. Instead, he encourages us to look to the Earth itself, and consider the crisis on grander spatial and temporal scales, as we have failed to in the past. Callicott supports this theory by exploring and enhancing Aldo Leopold's faint sketch of an Earth ethic in "Some Fundamentals of Conservation in the Southwest," a seldom-studied text from the early days of environmental ethics that was written in 1923 but not published until 1979 after the environmental movement gathered strength.