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Is biocentrism necessary in environmental ethics?
Biocentrism is the view that humankind is not the sole measure of ethics, and accepts the moral standing of all living creatures. It has played a formative role in the development of environmental ethics since the study of this subject became a self-conscious discipline in the 1970s. It had also been influential among some key earlier thinkers, including Albert Schweitzer (with his belief in ‘Reverence for Life’) and Mahatma Gandhi, who regarded even ‘the destruction of vegetable life as himsa [violence]’
In this Cafe session, we explore different versions of biocentrism, and the significance of a life-centred understanding of ethics for issues such as climate change.
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20 April 2010 at 7:30 pm |
Duration: | 2 hours |
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Philosophy Cafe |
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