ENV100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: David Suzuki, Solar Radiation Management, Virtue Ethics

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV100H1
• Professor: Simon Appolloni

Document Summary

In wilderness is the preservation of the world. Learning how to dwell in place in simplicity, independence. Visceral: relating to deep inward feeling rather than to the intellect. Once we come up with the decision, then we ask if its ethical. We are social beings need to get along unlike some animals we need to reply on more than instinct: norms and expectations, rules, laws. And, you know, there"s no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except though people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours. margret thatcher: this undermines ethics since ethics has to do with the fact that we are social beings. Ethics: the study of the process of determining moral conduct through reflection and analysis: study of how we know what is right and wrong.