PHIL 2070 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1, 2, 3, 12: Mark Rowlands, Environmental Ethics, Anthropocentrism
12 Jan 2017
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Environmental ethics begins the moment we challenge anthropocentric views. Professor mark rowlands lived with a wolf for 11 years: the wolf taught him about love, death, happiness and how we draw the line between those who morally count and those who do not. Almost all animals that humans deal with have been rendered fairly powerless through domestication. We have all signed a contract with one a(cid:374)other to (cid:374)ot i(cid:374)terfere i(cid:374) ea(cid:272)h other(cid:859)s lives in specified ways. We sign these contracts because we believe we can either be helped or harmed by others and that they will help us or refrain from hurting us if we reciprocate. Important to note that if we pick on someone weaker, they can join forces with someone else to fight back or resist. Animals have been places outside of the circle of moral concern: we have tamed them to be used as resources; for their extrinsic value.
