In Nature's Interests? : Interests, Animal Rights, and Environmental Ethics
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Environmental Ethics and Science Policy Series
ISBN-10
0195152018
ISBN-13
9780195152012
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 18th, 2002
Print length
164 Pages
Weight
260 grams
Dimensions
16.30 x 22.80 x 1.10 cms
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This work responds to the assumption that animal rights philosophies and anthropocentric views are each antithetical to sound environmental policy. Allowing that all living things have interests which should be protected, the author contends that some interests take priority over others.
This book offers a powerful response to what Varner calls the "two dogmas of environmental ethics"--the assumptions that animal rights philosophies and anthropocentric views are each antithetical to sound environmental policy. Allowing that every living organism has interests which ought, other things being equal, to be protected, Varner contends that some interests take priority over others. He defends both a sentientist principle giving priority to the lives of organisms with conscious desires and an anthropocentric principle giving priority to certain very inclusive interests which only humans have. He then shows that these principles not only comport with but provide significant support for environmental goals.
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