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18 Cards in this Set
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What were Aldo Leopold's 3 main points about land ethic?
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Integrity
Stabilbility Beauty |
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What are Leopolds main obstacles for a new land ethic?
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education
industrialization economic |
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In Thinking Like a Mountain, what did Leopold confess?
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That he was wrong for signing the piece of legislation to remove the wolves from the mountains.
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What is Emerson's view of Nature?
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Nature is perfect
Nature is morally good Nature trumphs humans |
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What is Mill's view of nature?
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Nature is immoral
Nature is irrational Humans can't follow nature because we are rational We make good of nature when we're dominating it--working the land. |
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What historical happenings caused Richard Sylvan to say a new enviornmental ethic was needed in the 1970's
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the proposal to dam the Colorado river, and finding out that DDT was harming birds in the area.
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Why did Sylvan think a new enviornmental ethic was needed?
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if we think better of nature, you'll care more, and becuase of the depletion of songbirds
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what does anthropocentric means?
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humans are central and most significant entities in the universe.
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what is human chauvinism?
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privlileging humans over nonhumans
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Would Leopold agree or disagree with Sylvan?
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Agree becuase Leopold also believes in an non-anthropocentric view of nature.
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What is Singer's viewpoint on animals?
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ANIMAL WELFARE.
whatever is best for the most amount of people, using as little pain as possible. |
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What is Regan's perspective on animals?
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ANIMAL RIGHTS/LIBERATION
causing animals pain is NEVER justified. |
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What is a sentient animal?
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animals, people. Things that can feel pain.
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What would both Regan and Sylvan agree on?
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No Shooting.
if humans wouldn't have taken the goats to the island in the first place we wouldn't have to deal with this issue. Both men are vegitarians |
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What would Regan and Sylvan disagree on?
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Captureing them. even if it's in a humane way--capturing going against animal liberation.
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How would Paul Taylor feel about trees being cut down for the christmas holiday?
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individual organisms have intrinsic worth.
Trees are more valuable than family happiness you shouldn't grow a tree just to cut it down |
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How would Holmes Rolston feel about the trees being cut down?
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doesn't matter if you cut a farmed or wild tree--when you cut it, life gets worse for the plant.
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is it worse to cut a wild or farmed tree down?
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it is better to cut a farmed tree, because it was planted and produced for certain reason.
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