Environmental Ethics
Environmental Ethics is becoming of greater concern in society today. Due to the fact that scientific evidence is showing we are unnecessarily and without thought destroying our natural environment. Not only plant species but all entities that reside within our planet. There is especial concern to animal species becoming extinct or are in danger of; There are many theories and policies which attempt to describe a solution or a ethical way of approaching these problems, and using these theories it helps Christians to respond ethically to environmental challenges.
One philosophical controversy which attempts to get a grip on these ecological problems is the is/ought controversy. It concerns the contrast between epistemology (theories of knowledge) and Ethics (theories of morality). Epistemology …show more content…
He wrote about three broad ethical approaches that have slowly been adopted. The libertarian extension is an approach in which individual rights are given to non-human and non-living entities. The theory states that moral worth should be rethought to include plants and other lesser lifeforms. But since plants have no sentiment we have no way to know what there thoughts are. A hierarchy of value advised by Singer states that a man weeds his vegetable garden. The life of each weed has value but a value overridden by his own needs, but seeing as the weed has no conscious he would not regret shortening the life of a blank existence. If we base our thoughts on this theory we come to the conclusion that a being with no conscious has no innate value. Although some deep ecologists argue all beings and objects that exist are deserving of moral status based on there
Environmental Ethics is becoming of greater concern in society today. Due to the fact that scientific evidence is showing we are unnecessarily and without thought destroying our natural environment. Not only plant species but all entities that reside within our planet. There is especial concern to animal species becoming extinct or are in danger of; There are many theories and policies which attempt to describe a solution or a ethical way of approaching these problems, and using these theories it helps Christians to respond ethically to environmental challenges.
One philosophical controversy which attempts to get a grip on these ecological problems is the is/ought controversy. It concerns the contrast between epistemology (theories of knowledge) and Ethics (theories of morality). Epistemology …show more content…
He wrote about three broad ethical approaches that have slowly been adopted. The libertarian extension is an approach in which individual rights are given to non-human and non-living entities. The theory states that moral worth should be rethought to include plants and other lesser lifeforms. But since plants have no sentiment we have no way to know what there thoughts are. A hierarchy of value advised by Singer states that a man weeds his vegetable garden. The life of each weed has value but a value overridden by his own needs, but seeing as the weed has no conscious he would not regret shortening the life of a blank existence. If we base our thoughts on this theory we come to the conclusion that a being with no conscious has no innate value. Although some deep ecologists argue all beings and objects that exist are deserving of moral status based on there