PHIL 1180 Chapter Notes - Chapter 46: Animal Rights Movement, Environmental Ethics, Sentience
5 May 2016
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Roger king: how to construe nature: environmental ethics and the interpretation of nature. The belief that nature has moral value lies at the heart of environmental ethics, yet there are different approaches: contextualists: value depends on the place which nature attains in our discourses with one another. Depends on how non-human entities are incorporated into human cultural understanding. Many environmental ethics writer prefer direct investigation of nature. If we construe nature as it really is, we can ascertain our obligations to nature. This strategy is not plausible we cannot construe nature apart from cultural interpretation. The interpretation of nature cannot be found independent of a human standpoint. Conceptualized and interpreted from a historically situated human. Swayed by intellectual, artistic, emotional, and technological resources. Cannot answer the question concerning nature"s moral value abstractly that is, without interpreting nature itself: nature has had very different interpretations. Nature is a religious entity the domain of satan.
