Nature's Intrinsic Value: A Taxonomy
Environmental ethicists often make claims about the intrinsic value of nature or parts thereof. Advances in intrinsic value theory, most notably Ben Bradley's "Two Concepts of Intrinsic Value," successfully cleave the concept of intrinsic value into two: a Moorean and Kantian variety....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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Environmental ethics
Year: 2024, Volume: 46, Issue: 2, Pages: 107-130 |
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| Summary: | Environmental ethicists often make claims about the intrinsic value of nature or parts thereof. Advances in intrinsic value theory, most notably Ben Bradley's "Two Concepts of Intrinsic Value," successfully cleave the concept of intrinsic value into two: a Moorean and Kantian variety. This paper seeks to classify and organize different environmental theorists within a Bradley-inspired framework, helping to bring clarity and charity to the claims of older and newer environmental ethicists. These two types of intrinsic value help explain why different thinkers have differing intuitions on e.g., culling cases. As well as valuing nature suis generis, the paper considers the value that might accrue from other relational properties in nature, such as beauty, biodiversity, and rarity. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-7895 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Environmental ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/enviroethics20245975 |