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ARRANGE YOURSELVES INTO GROUPS OF THREE
YOU MAY MOVE THE DESKS TO FACILITATE THIS BETTER
READ THE POEM “SEVEN DAYS” BY GARY DUNFORD
THEN AS A GROUP DISCUSS AND ANSWER THE
QUESTIONS ON THE TWO SHEETS PROVIDED.
ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
• “Do we have special duties, obligations, or responsibilities to other species or to nature in general?”
“Are there ethical principles that constrain how we use resources
or modify our environment?”
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“How are our obligations and responsibilities to nature weighed
against human values and interests?”
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ARE YOU A UNIVERSALIST? RELATIVIST? NIHILIST?
UTILITARIAN?
UNIVERSALIST – Plato; right and wrong, unchanging, eternal;
God ; reason; knowledge
RELATIVIST – no absolute rule regardless of circumstance
NIHILIST – world makes no sense at all
UTILITARIAN – an action is right that produces the greatest good for the greatest number of
people