PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Deontological Ethics, Cultural Relativism, Dualism
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A political/philosophical movement to transform society to replace explicit and implicit gender discrimination with equality socialism: a political/philosophical movement to transform society to replace class discrimination and economic injustice with equality the prefix eco. Makes each of these movements operate in an environmental context total transformation. Ecofeminism stresses kinship and solidarity with non-humans. But not all means of achieving this succeed. Val plumwood says that they do not go far enough conceptually speaking the case of vegetarians. The philosophy of vegetarians plumwood discusses justifies itself by understanding use of moral wrong. To eat a living organism is to use it for your purposes alone. To make a resources of an organism violates its existence. So all predator activity is a moral wrong. Animals are respected on the same terms as humans. There are good reasons for being a vegetarian: the avoidance of cruelty in modern factory farming methods, for example.