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Environmental Ethics: An Interactive Introduction by Andrew Kernohan

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By Andrew Kernohan

This ebook explains the elemental suggestions of environmental ethics and applies them to international environmental difficulties. the writer concisely introduces simple ethical theories, discusses how those theories will be prolonged to contemplate the non-human international, and examines how environmental ethics interacts with smooth society’s monetary method of the surroundings. on-line multiple-choice questions motivate the reader’s lively studying.

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Indd 20 EN V I RON M EN TA L ET HIC S 12-07-23 2:49 PM altogether inconceivable, how this new relation can be a deduction from others, which are entirely different from it. But as authors do not commonly use this precaution, I shall presume to recommend it to the readers; and am persuaded, that this small attention would subvert all the vulgar systems of morality.... (Hume 1740: Book III, Part I, Section I) Hume’s observation of the fallacy of deriving an “ought” from an “is” is sometimes picturesquely called “Hume’s Guillotine” because it can sever an ethical conclusion from an argument consisting of purely scientific or factual premises.

Ethical relativism, by making it too easy to agree to disagree, fails to do justice to the agreement-seeking aspect of ethical judgments. It encourages a sort of intellectual laziness that leads adherents not to allow their own moral views to be challenged and not to respect their own moral integrity. O n li n e R eadi n g Q u e st i o n s The book’s website contains reading questions on this chapter. Working through these questions will help you understand, remember, and apply important concepts from the chapter.

If he says it is only true-for-him, then he cannot justify why Donna should believe it. Ethical relativism makes it impossible for people to seek agreement about ethical matters, while relativism about truth in general destroys the possibility of any agreement seeking. According to ethical relativism, what actions are right, wrong, or permissible for a person depends on that person’s cultural membership, and on what ethical principles that person’s culture accepts. However, a person’s cultural membership is not always clear.

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