Ética ambiental y Antropocentrismo débil

Bryan G Norton; Felipe Bravo-Osorio

doi:10.28970/hh.2019.2.a4

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Environmental ethics and weak anthropocentrism

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Bryan G Norton Georgia Institute of Technology , Felipe Bravo-Osorio Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios ,

The assumption that an adequate environmental ethic must be non-anthropocentric is erroneous. There are two forms of anthropocentrism: weak and strong, and the former is sufficient to sustain an environmental ethic. However, environmental ethics does differ from British and American ethical systems in that, to be adequate, it must be non-individualistic. Environmental ethics contains two levels of decision making: the first refers to the usual decisions that affect individual equity, the second does not have this individual perspective. This second level, called allocative decisions, is not reducible to the first and governs the use of resources over time. Weak anthropocentrism provides a basis for criticizing individual consumption needs and can be the basis for judging between these levels. Thus, it allows an adequate foundation for environmental ethics without the need to resort to the questionable ontological commitments that non-anthropocentrists adopt by attributing intrinsic value to nature.

Keywords:

ética ambiental, antropocentrismo, no-antropocentrismo, individualismo, valor intrínseco

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Norton, B. G., & Bravo-Osorio, F. (2019). Environmental ethics and weak anthropocentrism. Humanitas Hodie, 2(2), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.28970/hh.2019.2.a4

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Norton, B. G., & Bravo-Osorio, F. (2019). Environmental ethics and weak anthropocentrism. Humanitas Hodie, 2(2), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.28970/hh.2019.2.a4

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