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