PHIL202 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Monism, Anthropocentrism, Oil Spill
11 Sep 2017
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Anthropocentric environmental ethics: conclusion, human species is under no moral obligation to extend its own internal code of behavior to other species. It is a serious error to do so: we care about the environment b/c we care about human beings. Where to dump the waste: based on cost-benefit analysis and where it makes the most economic sense, where future generations are concerned, cba is not a reliable guide to reasonable policies. Competing human-centered values: two anthropocentrism, economic/cba- put all values in monetary terms so that people can use markets to choose actions and policies that promote maximum human well being. Interests of human-beings over anything else: no consequences taken into account, non-economic- some important values cannot be put in monetary terms. They have intrinsic value: national: preserving wilderness areas can be done to further distinct. While cost considerations alone did not set the goals, they may legitimately guide strategies to meet the goal (cost effectiveness analysis)
