Philosophy 2033A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Land Ethic, Biocoenosis, Anthropocentrism
1 Jan 2019
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Aldo leopold: thinking like a mountain and the land ethic . Background: retired in 1935 (great depression, bought land in the middle of a barren landscape, where nothing would grow, wanted to show the interconnectedness of species. An ethical obligation on the part of the private owner is the only visible. Remedy fo these situations: a-b cleavage, plane of cleavage common to many specialized fields, a = land is soil, its function is commodity-production, b = land is biota, function is broader than a. It is not a matter of pulling one log out, there are drastic changes that need to happen everywhere else too: economic considerations shouldn"t dominate. William devenan: the pristine myth : there is no untouched nature in the world right now, we like to think that there is but there truly isn"t. Mark sagoff: animal liberation and environmental ethics: bad marriage, quick divorce .
