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• Aldo Leopold, “The Land Ethic” (1948) • J. Baird Callicott, “Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: a Triangular Affair” (1980)
Lecture 10: Ecocentrism and Animal Liberation • Aldo Leopold, “The Land Ethic” (1948) • J. Baird Callicott, “Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: A Triangular Affair” (1980) Friday, October 11, 2013 Themes • “A triangular affair?” • Holism and individualism • Three differences between ecocentrism and animal liberation • Three arguments against animal liberation • Critique of ecocentrism Friday, October 11, 2013 Ecocentrism and Animal Liberation • Rift between ecocentrism (of Leopold) and animal liberation (of Singer) Friday, October 11, 2013 Ecocentrism and Animal Liberation • “A vegetarian human population is therefore probably ecologically catastrophic.” • “[Domestic animals] have been bred to docility, tractability, stupidity, and dependency. It is literally meaningless to suggest that they be liberated.” • “An imagined society in which all animals capable of sensibility received equal consideration or held rights to equal consideration would be so ludicrous that it might be more appropriately and effectively treated in satire than in philosophical discussion.” • “…the human population has become so disproportionate from the biological point of view that if one had to choose between a specimen of Homo sapiens and a specimen of a rare even if unattractive species, the choice would be moot.” Friday, October 11, 2013 Ecocentrism and Animal Liberation • Mountains, streams, and plants have as much ‘biotic right’ to exist as animals • Leopold never considers factory farming to be an urgent moral issue; exhibits apparent ‘indifference’ -
Envisioning Democracy Through Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic Stacey L
Rollins College Rollins Scholarship Online Master of Liberal Studies Theses 2013 The eD mocratic Landscape: Envisioning Democracy Through Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic Stacey L. Matrazzo [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.rollins.edu/mls Part of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons, and the Political Science Commons Recommended Citation Matrazzo, Stacey L., "The eD mocratic Landscape: Envisioning Democracy Through Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic" (2013). Master of Liberal Studies Theses. 45. http://scholarship.rollins.edu/mls/45 This Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by Rollins Scholarship Online. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master of Liberal Studies Theses by an authorized administrator of Rollins Scholarship Online. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Democratic Landscape: Envisioning Democracy Through Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic A Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Liberal Studies by Stacey L. Matrazzo May, 2013 Mentor: Dr. R. Bruce Stephenson Reader: Dr. Leslie K. Poole Rollins College Hamilton Holt School Master of Liberal Studies Program Winter Park, Florida Table of Contents Introduction..........................................................................................................................2 The Land Ethic’s Role in Democracy..................................................................................5 The Evolution of the Land Ethic........................................................................................17 -
Position on Bioethics
Position on Bioethics Background Bioethics refers to the application of ethical principles to address potential ethical questions arising from biological research, science and medicine. Bioethics may include ethical dimensions of medical research, clinical trials, use of different forms of technology in healthcare, public policy, prioritization of research and resources, and much more. For any company involved in healthcare, bioethics questions frequently arise and require resolutions based on accepted bioethics principles. The four commonly accepted principles of bioethics1 are: • Autonomy: Requires that the patient have autonomy of thought, intention and action when making decisions regarding healthcare procedures and must give fully informed consent with knowledge of all risks and benefits of the procedure and the likelihood of success. • Justice: Requires that procedures uphold the spirit of existing laws and are fair to all players involved, ensuring that no population be overly burdened or overly valued in research and scientific progress. • Beneficence: Requires that the procedure be provided with the intent of doing good for the patient involved, considers individual circumstances of all patients and strives for net benefit. • Non-maleficence: Requires that a procedure does not harm the patient involved or others in society. Relevance Bioethics plays a critical role in the advancement of human health by ensuring safe, ethical and just applications of new science and technological and therapeutic breakthroughs. As the world’s largest and most broadly based healthcare company, reaching patients and consumers each day with our medicines, consumer care products and medical devices, Johnson & Johnson is a leader in healthcare research and development. We employ significant resources in the development of new medicines and medical devices and their application. -
Top 50 Bioethics Journals and Top 250 Most Cited Bioethics Articles Since 2011, 2016 Edition May 23, 2016 | BRL Blog, Featured
U a Top 50 Bioethics Journals and Top 250 Most Cited Bioethics Articles Since 2011, 2016 Edition May 23, 2016 | BRL Blog, Featured This 2016 edition of the “top bioethics journals and articles” list includes updated rankings for bioethics journals and new citation metrics for articles published in 2015, as well as updates for previous years’ top articles. Links to the publisher pages are included for each article as well as links to their citation page on Google Scholar. The average H5 index for the top fifty-two journals is 13.38, with a tied high of 28 and a minimum of 6. Here are the top top 52 journals and 252 most cited articles from the top bioethics journals published in 2009 through 2015. View the Top Articles by Year: 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011. About this Analysis This is an updated citation analysis for 2011 through 2015 of the top 100 bioethics journals. I’ve included the top 50 journals and the top cited articles per year including the h5 ranking. Just over 20,000 articles were analyzed in this dataset, shared here as a spreadsheet. If you’re interested in using this study in a publication or presentation please let me know so I can share a link to your research on this blog post. I utilized Harzing’s Publish or Perish software over a period of 10 days to gather this new data in May, 2016. The citation metrics are from Google Scholar’s index. Author: Mark Hakkarinen, M.A. Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. -
Developing a Sustainable Land Ethic in 21St Century Cities
Eco-Architecture IV 139 Developing a sustainable land ethic in 21st century cities G. E. Kirsch Department of English and Media Studies, Bentley University, USA Abstract As more and more of the world’s population lives in urban environments, we are faced with questions of quality of life, urban regeneration, sustainability and living in harmony with nature. Drawing on the work of Aldo Leopold, one of the most renowned figures in conservation, wildlife ecology, and environmental ethics, I argue that we need to develop an urban land ethic, one that pays attention to how access to land and water fronts, to parks and playgrounds is intimately tied to health, safety, recreation, and the ability of families to raise children in an urban environment. I use a specific local example from Boston, Massachusetts (USA) to illustrate my argument: I examine the Boston Esplanade Association’s 2020 Vision Study that articulates the importance of parklands, recreation, ecology, and nature for city residents. Keywords: urban land ethic, Aldo Leopold, quality of life, families in cities, parklands and green spaces, sustainable cities, Esplanade 2020 Vision, Boston USA. 1 Introduction Developing an urban land ethic will become critical to the success and survival of future cities. UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, in his commentary on the second Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, argues, “At Rio, governments should call for smarter use of resources. Our oceans much be protected. So must our water, air and forests. Our cities must be made more liveable – places we inhabit in greater harmony with nature” [1]. As more and more of the world’s population lives in urban environments, we are faced with questions of quality of life, urban regeneration, sustainability and living in harmony with nature. -
Understanding the Land Ethic By: James Thomas Erbaugh
Understanding the Land Ethic By: James Thomas Erbaugh Approved by: ____________________, Advisor Dr. Richard Momeyer ____________________, Reader Dr. Kimberly Medley ____________________, Reader Dr. Pascal Massie i Acknowledgements My advisor, Dr. Richard Momeyer, provided continuous support, inspired feedback, and enlightened direction throughout my research and writing. Dr. Pascal Massie and Dr. Kimberly Medley greatly strengthened my thought and writing with their careful readings and valuable critiques. Finally, the Honors Department and the Department of Philosophy at Miami University provide the opportunity to pursue an undergraduate thesis, an opportunity I have found deeply rewarding. To these people and departments: thank you. ii Table of Contents Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………………i Table of Contents………………………………………………………………………...ii Introduction………………………………………………………………………………1 Chapter One: Leopold‟s Land Ethic and Callicott‟s Development………………………7 Chapter Two: Critique and Defense of the Land Ethic…………………………………..22 Chapter Three: Application and Critique………………………………………………...37 iii Introduction More than a decade before the environmental revolution of the 1960s, Aldo Leopold published A Sand County Almanac. “The Land Ethic,” one of the most compelling essays in A Sand County Almanac, provides normative direction for the human relation to and use of the land. Over half a century later, the ethical maxims and directions provided within “The Land Ethic” are still being discussed; foremost among supporters—and revisers—of Leopold‟s -
Deep Ecology and Eco Feminism an Approach to Sustainable Development
Volume : 3 | Issue : 10 | Oct 2014 ISSN - 2250-1991 Research Paper Economics Deep Ecology And Eco Feminism An Approach To Sustainable Development ICSSR-Doctoral Fellow Research Scholar (UGC-NET) DEPARTMENT S. RAVIKUMAR OF ECONOMICS OSMANIA UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD-500007 KEYWORDS Deep ecology, Eco-feminism, Ecological crisis, Livelihoods. The ecological crisis reflects the inequal livelihoods of indigenous communities. Due to globalization, only minority sections are benefited, majority of poor lower. Eco-feminists argue that deep ecology is not deep enough because its call for biological egalitarianism does not extent to women (Salleh 1984).Deep ecology is preoccupied with anthropocentrism (Human centeredness) as main cause of environmental degradation when the real problem is andro centrism, ecological destruction being male dominated. In the process of globalization, industrial and development projects cause a serious harm to the forest or eco systems. In Indian the destruction of five lakh hectares of forest in the past five years alone for mines, dams and industrial project in the name of development. Economic growth do not result in poverty reduction and gap between the rich and poor ABSTRACT widen. So that’s why development should be from the below .To have better future for indigenous people, their values must be respected, by making them access to equitable and distribution of GDP. Alternatives, new economic theories, developmental programmes and policies must be framed, and implemented at root level INTRODUCTION: world poses a threat therefore, not only to human but to all The ecological crisis reflects the inequal livelihoods of indige- organisms constituting the natural order. Deep ecology’s core nous communities. -
Informed Consent and Refusal
CHAPTER 3 Informed Consent and Refusal Evolution of the doctrine of informed consent Elements of informed consent and refusal The nature of informed consent Exceptions to the consent requirement Mrs. Stack is a 67- year- old woman admitted with rectal bleeding, chronic renal in- sufficiency, diabetes, and blindness. On admission, she was alert and capacitated. Two weeks later, she suffered a cardiopulmonary arrest, was resuscitated and intu- bated, and was transferred to the medical intensive care unit (MICU) in an unrespon- sive and unstable state. Consent for emergency dialysis was obtained from her son, who is also her health care agent. Dialysis was repeated two days later. During the past several years, Mrs. Stack has consistently stated to her family and her primary care doctor that she would never want to be on chronic dialysis and she has refused it numerous times when it was recommended. The physician, who has known and treated Mrs. Stack for many years, also treated her daughter who had been on chronic dialysis for some time and had died after suffering a heart attack. According to the physician and the patient’s family, Mrs. Stack’s refusal of dialysis has been based on her conviction that her daughter died as a result of the dialysis treatments. Mrs. Stack’s mental status has cleared considerably and, despite the ventilator, she is able to communicate nonverbally. Although she appears to understand the benefits of dialysis and the consequences of refusing it, including deterioration and eventual death, she has consistently and vehemently refused further treatments. Her capacity to make this decision is not now in question. -
How to Think About Wild Animal Suffering
How to Think About Wild Animal Suffering ! m a g e + J i m b o o m b a P o l i c e , T h e T i m e s ( A free lecture by Dale Jamieson, PhD Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, New York University Director, Center for Environmental and Animal Protection Monday, February 3rd, 4:00 – 5:20 p.m. David Strong Building, Rm. # C126 It has been widely reported that more than a billion animals have been killed in Australia in the fires that have been raging since late last year. The Australian grandmother who risked her life to save a Koala from a burning tree is widely seen as a hero. Yet in the normal course of events billions of animals die every day (including about 150 million for food). Are we obliged to do what we can to save them all? The logic of at least some animal protection philosophies seems to say “yes:” We should eliminate suffering whenever and wherever we can, whether it is caused by human action, by the predation of one animal on another, or by the impersonal workings of nature. But to many environmentalists and others, this vision of “policing nature” seems mad or worse. Questions about wild animal suffering not only threaten to disrupt alliances between animal protectionists and environmentalist, but go to the very heart of what it is to be human living in a natural world. While I do not purport to provide the correct answers to the many questions in this area, I do hope to clarify some of the issues and contribute to thinking clearly about them. -
Informed Consent
Christine Grady Department of Bioethics NIH Clinical Center The views expressed here are mine and do not necessarily represent those of the CC, NIH, or Department of Health and Human Services Informed consent is the bedrock principle on which most of modern research ethics rest…This was at the heart of the crucial ethical provision stated in the first words of the Nuremberg Code, and it remains equally compelling a half century later. Menikoff J, Camb Quarterly 2004 p 342 Authorization of an activity based on understanding what the activity entails. A legal, regulatory, and ethical requirement in health care and in most research with human subjects A process of reasoned decision making (not a form or an episode) One aspect of conducting ethical clinical research “Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what will be done with his body… Justice Cardozo, 1914 Respect for autonomy or for an individual’s capacity and right to define own goals and make choices consistent with those goals. Well entrenched in American values, jurisprudence, medical practice, and clinical research. “Informed consent is rooted in the fundamental recognition…that adults are entitled to accept or reject health care interventions on the basis of their own personal values and in furtherance of their own personal goals” Presidents Commission for the study of ethical problems…1982 Informed consent in medical practice …informed consent in clinical practice is frequently inadequate… Physicians receive little training… Misunderstand requirements and legal standards… Time pressures and competing demands… Patient comprehension is often poor… Recent studies have demonstrated improvement in patient understanding of risks after communication interventions Schenker et al 2010; Matiasek et al. -
Do “Prey Species” Hide Their Pain? Implications for Ethical Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
Journal of Applied Animal Ethics Research 2 (2020) 216–236 brill.com/jaae Do “Prey Species” Hide Their Pain? Implications for Ethical Care and Use of Laboratory Animals Larry Carbone Independent scholar; 351 Buena Vista Ave #703E, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA [email protected] Abstract Accurate pain evaluation is essential for ethical review of laboratory animal use. Warnings that “prey species hide their pain,” encourage careful accurate pain assess- ment. In this article, I review relevant literature on prey species’ pain manifestation through the lens of the applied ethics of animal welfare oversight. If dogs are the spe- cies whose pain is most reliably diagnosed, I argue that it is not their diet as predator or prey but rather because dogs and humans can develop trusting relationships and because people invest time and effort in canine pain diagnosis. Pain diagnosis for all animals may improve when humans foster a trusting relationship with animals and invest time into multimodal pain evaluations. Where this is not practical, as with large cohorts of laboratory mice, committees must regard with skepticism assurances that animals “appear” pain-free on experiments, requiring thorough literature searches and sophisticated pain assessments during pilot work. Keywords laboratory animal ‒ pain ‒ animal welfare ‒ ethics ‒ animal behavior 1 Introduction As a veterinarian with an interest in laboratory animal pain management, I have read articles and reviewed manuscripts on how to diagnose a mouse in pain. The challenge, some authors warn, is that mice and other “prey species” © LARRY CARBONE, 2020 | doi:10.1163/25889567-bja10001 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0Downloaded license. -
Abolitionist Animal Rights: Critical Comparisons and Challenges Within the Animal Rights Movement
WellBeing International WBI Studies Repository 11-2012 Abolitionist Animal Rights: Critical Comparisons and Challenges Within the Animal Rights Movement Corey Lee Wrenn Colorado State University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/anirmov Part of the Animal Studies Commons, Civic and Community Engagement Commons, and the Politics and Social Change Commons Recommended Citation Wrenn, C. (2012). Abolitionist animal rights: critical comparisons and challenges within the animal rights movement. Interface, 4(2), 438-458. This material is brought to you for free and open access by WellBeing International. It has been accepted for inclusion by an authorized administrator of the WBI Studies Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Interface: a journal for and about social movements Article Volume 4 (2): 438 - 458 (November 2012) Wrenn, Abolitionist Animal Rights Abolitionist animal rights: critical comparisons and challenges within the animal rights movement Corey Wrenn Abstract The abolitionist movement is an emergent and radical approach to nonhuman animal rights. Calling for a complete cessation in nonhuman animal use through the abolishing of property status for nonhuman animals and an adoption of veganism and nonviolence, this approach stands in stark contrast to mainstream approaches such as humane production and welfare reform. This paper describes the goals and stances of abolitionism; the basic debate between abolitionism and other nonhuman animal rights movements; and the current state, challenges, and future prospects for abolitionism. It is argued that abolitionism, as developed by Francione, is the only morally consistent approach for taking the interests of nonhuman animals seriously.