![]() ![]() ![]() If something like an environmental ethics is possible, either biocentrism or ecocentrism has to be true. ![]() As always we want to ask both if such things have moral standing, and if they do, what are our obligations to them.Īs we've now seen, the question of the limits of the moral community (of where DMS ends) has been answered in a variety of (increasingly expansive) ways: Anthropocentrism: All and only human beings have DMS Sentientism: Singer: all sentient creatures have DMS Biocentrism: All living things, because they are living, have DMS Ecocentrism: because of their integral, functional character, ecosystems have DMS. 1 The Moral Status of the Non-Human World Baxter and TaylorĪn even more controversial expansion of the concept of moral standing attempts to extend it to biological (a rare fungi) or non-living features (a wild mountain stream) of the natural world, or even to the interconnected whole of nature. ![]()
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