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LECTURE 12

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Environmental Ethics & Policies

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Ethics and Culture

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What is Environmental Ethics?

  • Environmental Ethics considers the relationship between men and nature, specially men’s relation with the environment.

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Ethics and Culture

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Patterns of Man-Nature Relationship:

There are three different patterns of human attitudes in relation to man and nature:

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  • Man under nature
  • Man over nature
  • Man with nature

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The Impact of Religion on Man-

Nature Relationship:

  • Judeo-Christian Tradition

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  • Islam

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  • Paganism and Christianity

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The Impact of Non-Religion Approach to the Environment:

  • Impact of Age Of Reason

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  • Impact of Technology

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  • Impact of Darwinism

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Two Different Standpoints of Environmental Ethics:

The problems of environmental ethics can be addressed from two different standpoints:

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  • Anthropocentric Morality

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  • Non-anthropocentric Morality

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Different Approaches of Environmental Ethics:

  • The Land Ethic

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  • Deep Ecology

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  • The Value Of Wilderness

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Role of Environmental Ethics:

  • Duty of Future Generations

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  • Need for Environmental Ethics

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Critical Evaluation of Environmental Ethics:

  • Utilitarianism
  • Kantian Ethics
  • Rawl’s Theory of Justice
  • Communitarianism

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Ethics and Culture

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Thank You…