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Philosophical discipline

Environmental Ethics

3 elements for an action to become an action

Rationality : knowledge


Freedom : will


Volintariness : volition

It has inherent value in itself

Intrinsic Value

Worth pursuing as an end in itself

Intrinsic Value

Considered as a means towards achieving a certain end, thus it is depends on whether it was successful .......

Instrumental Value

Humans or

Anthropocentrism

Anthropos -

Human

Centric

Center

Main representative of Sophists

Protagoras

He said: " man is the measure of all things. Of things that are, that they are, and things that are not, that they are not."

Protagoras

Theoretical

Ethics

Ethics latin:

Ethos

Ethics greek

Ethicos

Concerned with theories and right principle of conduct.

Ethics

Practical

Morality

Study of the rectitude of human act

Morality

Application of theories & principles in ethics

Morality

The rightness or wrongness of an act

Rectitude

Applied ethics

Morality

Philosophical doctrine stating that reason is the only true and valid source of knowledge.

Rationalism

Mga rationalists

Descartes, libniz, spinoza, malebranche

Philosophical doctrine stating that experience is the only true and valid source of knowledge.

Empiricism

Higher form of animals

Nonhumans

Other term sa non humans

Panthrocentrism

Blank slate/tablet

Tabula rasa

Biocentrism

Living organisms

The view that not only humans and animals but also plants should be morally considerable.

Biocentrism

Ecocentrism/Holism

Holistic Entities/communities

Whole or all existence

Holistic Entities / communities

Broad areas of envi. Philosophy

》Environmental ethics


》Radical Ecological Philosophy


》Reformist Anthropocentrism

Models of radical ecological philosophy

- deep ecology


- social ecology


- ecofeminism

Proponents of _________ were disillusioned with existing models

Deep Ecology

An extension of traditional and conventional worldview.

Shallow ecology

Principle of non doing or non action

Wu-wei-wu

(Unsa nga principle)


Even if youre all male, there's still female and vv

Yinyang principle

Offshoot of movement against domination .....

Social ecology

Proponent of social ecology

Murray Bookchin

Reaction against a male domination and corresponding opression of women.

Ecological feminism or ecofeminism

Present challenge

Climate change

Continuing challenge

Preservation of endangered species

Emerging challenge

Water scarcity

The global water demand will grow by __% by the year 2030

40

Future challenge

Sustainable dev.

Dev. That meets the needs of the presemt w/out compromising the abilitynof future to meet their own needs

Sustainable dev

A branch of philosophy that deals with the systematic questioning and critical examination of the underlying principles of morality

Ethics

2 general approaches of ethics

Normative and meta-ethics

Moral act

Good

Immoral

Evil

Amoral

Indifferent

Neither good or evil

Amoral

An evil act done with good intention ----

Cannot become good

A good act done with bad intention ----

Can become bad

Normative ethics meant to give an answer to the question ---

What is good?

it pertains to certain norms or standards for goodness and badness, rightness or wrongness of an act

Normative Ethics

Do good, avoid evil

Ethical Maxim

Tries to go beyond the concepts and parameters set by normative ethics by trying to question the basis of the assumptions proposed in such a framework of norms and standards by normative ethics.

Meta-ethics

As an ethical approach, this examines the presuppositions, meanings and justifications of ethical concepts and principles

Meta-ethics

2 important factors in the emergence of morality

Pov of society and pov of individual

An act is good if ---

It conforms to the dictates of right reason

An act is evil if ----

It contradicts to the dictates of right reason

Freedom assumes that ----

One is a free moral agent

2 conditions for morality

Freedom and obligation

It is construed as one's duty to himself to exercise this freedom as a rational moral being

Obligation

Deliberate human action

Conduct

Side-taking part of our experience

Value experience

Are the result of the process of value experience where you are settling which priorities you gave and have chosen to pursue.

Values

Most important class of moral judgments bc it has preference to the judge's own future action

Moral decision

Has reference to other people or groups as to what they should or ought to do

Moral judgment

Answers about what we ought to do from a moral system that we uphold and its moral principles

Normative answers

"What would I be inclined to do given this situation?"

Practical choice on actual situations

Greek 'dein' meaning

Duty

Based on duty

Deontological ethics

Non consequential

Deontological ethics

It recognizes that there are moral principles that we follow as universally correct and should be applicable to all humanity

Categorical imperative or law of morality

This is something that we are unconditionally obliged to do, without regard to the consequences

Kantian ethics

'Telos'

End, goal or purpose

Consequential, result-oriened

Teleological ethics

He believes that the purpose of an action must be based on its consequences

Teleologist

Most common yet extreme form of consequentialism

"The end justifies the means"

When u cheat to pass, in teleological ethics, it is

Good

Quality

John stuart mill

Quantity

Jeremy benthum