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The Environment and Natural Rights |
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著者 |
Osigwe, Uchenna W (著)
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出版年月日 | 2005.01.04 |
ページ | 96 |
出版者 | University of Saskatchewan |
出版サイト |
https://www.usask.ca/
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出版地 | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada [薩斯卡通, 薩斯喀徹溫省, 加拿大] |
資料の種類 | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
言語 | 英文=English |
学位 | 修士 |
学校 | University of Saskatchewan |
学部・学科名 | Philosophy |
指導教官 | Leslie A Howe |
抄録 | The argument advanced is this thesis is that the entities that make up the environment are those that do not owe their origin to any willful creative activity but have evolved through accidental natural processes. This fact of not being willfully created makes the environment ontologically independent and confers on it intrinsic value as opposed to instrumental value. This intrinsic value is one that all the entities that make up the environment share. It is further argued that this intrinsic value is aesthetic rather than moral. Only beings that are specially endowed with certain capacities, like reflection and understanding, could be said, in the context of this work, to have intrinsic moral value in the sense of being moral agents. But as moral agents, we need to give moral considerability to all the natural entities in the environment since they share the same natural right with us, based on our common origin. So, even though the nonhuman, natural entities in the environment do not have moral rights, they have natural rights. It is further argued that this natural right could be best safeguarded in a legal framework. |
ヒット数 | 232 |
作成日 | 2023.04.26 |
更新日期 | 2023.04.26 |
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