PHI 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Anthropocentrism, Environmental Ethics
17 Mar 2016
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Focuses on anthropocentrism which is seen as the only interests that matter or are real are human interests. Baxter also talks about preferences so we can probably name him as a preference utilitarian. This fourth criteria is focusing on a capitalist framework. Just like his four criterions his perspective is anthropocentric: anthropocentric approach to environmental ethics. Just like his general four criteria, his environmental ethic is anthropocentric, i. e. people-oriented : Baxter"s first reason to the anthropocentric approach is first, no other position corresponds to the way most people really think and act-i. e. corresponds to reality (p. 54) The limitation to this reason is that there"s a conceptual limit. Baxter"s third reason to the anthropocentric approach is third what is good for humans is, in many respects, good for penguins and pine trees-clean air for example. So that humans are in these respects, surrogates for plant and animal life.
