ENVIRON 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Neoclassical Economics
2 Oct 2016
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Environ 201- chapter 6: ethics, economics, and sustainable development. Culture: the overall ensemble of knowledge, beliefs, values, and learned ways of life shared by a group of people. Worldview: a way of looking at the world that reflects a person"s (or a group"s) beliefs about the meaning, purpose, operation, and essence of the world. Relativists: an ethicist who maintains that ethics do and should vary with social context. Universalists: an ethicist who maintains that there exist objective notions of right and wrong that hold across cultures and situations. Ethical standards: a criterion that helps differentiate right from wrong. Instrumental (utilitarian) value: value ascribed to something for the pragmatic benefits it brings us if we put it to use. Intrinsic (inherent) value: value ascribed to something for its intrinsic worth; the notion that the thing has a right to exist and is valuable for its own sake. Environmental ethics: the application of ethical standards to environmental questions.
