Deep Time and Environmental Ethics
This paper employs the concept of deep time to supply a philosophical argument about the kind of environmental ethics required in the present. Considerations from the evolutionary past are deployed to support the intrinsic value of health and well-being in addition to that of pleasure. The well-bein...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2022
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Worldviews
Année: 2022, Volume: 26, Numéro: 3, Pages: 242-248 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
a biocentric ethical theory
B the posthuman future B evolutionary past B the content of well-being B Intrinsic Value |
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| Résumé: | This paper employs the concept of deep time to supply a philosophical argument about the kind of environmental ethics required in the present. Considerations from the evolutionary past are deployed to support the intrinsic value of health and well-being in addition to that of pleasure. The well-being of a species is held to consist in that of its individual members, past, present and future. Duties to species accordingly include promoting the well-being of future species members, since the impacts of human actions in a technological age are spread out across the future. These impacts include impacts on non-human species after humanity has become extinct; if these impacts matter, then a non-anthropocentric ethic is needed to explain why they do, since an anthropocentric ethics is incapable of explaining this. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5357 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Worldviews
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685357-tat00004 |