PHIL 1100H Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Partialism, Stoicism, Land Ethic
5 Apr 2017
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The individual is a basic, primary unit of value; direct duties to individuals with intrinsic properties [unrelated to others] The group or the whole is a basic, primary unit of value; duties to the whole or to the group [because of the properties of the group] A group is more than the sum of its parts. The connections between individuals are basic, primary units of value, and individuals are important as relata": relata: to be a member of a relationship. If you are a son or a daughter, you are a relata in a family relationship. You go to trent so you are a relata in a trent relationship. Relata is just a descriptive term for one of the contributors to the relationship. This means that anyone/ thing can also be a relata without knowing it. A strand in a spider web, an ant in a colony, the first newborn human baby born in.
