intervention, as our environment-related moral goal? How might complexity/chaos theory lead to differing environmental ethics? (170) Does JD think, once we have incorporated the latest/best ecological paradigms, that this will resolve our approach to environmental ethics and policies? 7.6 Varieties of Holism What is metaphysical holism, and what examples of it have we already seen? What is Callicott’s primacy’? ‘ontological What is methodological/epistemological holism? What is ethical holism and a particularly good expression of it, according to JD? Think about how your thinking has changed, become clearer, or more confused, as you review and try to incorporate a rudimentary understanding of how ecological understandings (ecological paradigms), have changed over the past 150 years (since Darwin published (1859). On the Origin of the Species Key Terms: ecocentric, holism, Puritan model, Lockean model, romantic model, naturalistic fallacy Ch 8: The Land Ethic, 180-99 A quote from Leopold that anyone with the contemporary environmental facts will understand viscerally: Why for most people does the word and that for which it stands, have a “predator,” negative connotation? What are some of the animals that it has been US policy to dramatically reduce in official numbers (and in some exterminate)? Among what group of people did attitudes toward predators first, according to JD, begin to change? How was this change related to the organic, climax model of ecology? And how was this change related to the idea of carrying capacity? What similarity exists between the S-shaped curve” of a population described on “logistic 177 and in the charts presented in class? Limits to Growth What does the U.S. Endangered Species Act require of the federal government? What is the difference between a species” (as defined in endangered “re-established species law) and species? How are these different groups treated “re-introduced” differently under such law?
intervention, as our environment-related moral goal? How might complexity/chaos theory lead to differing environmental ethics? (170) Does JD think, once we have incorporated the latest/best ecological paradigms, that this will resolve our approach to environmental ethics and policies? 7.6 Varieties of Holism What is metaphysical holism, and what examples of it have we already seen? What is Callicott’s ‘ontological primacy’? What is methodological/epistemological holism? What is ethical holism and a particularly good expression of it, according to JD? Think about how your thinking has changed, become clearer, or more confused, as you review and try to incorporate a rudimentary understanding of how ecological understandings (ecological paradigms), have changed over the past 150 years (since Darwin published On the Origin of the Species (1859). Key Terms: ecocentric, holism, Puritan model, Lockean model, romantic model, naturalistic fallacy Ch 8: The Land Ethic, 180-99 A quote from Leopold that anyone with the contemporary environmental facts will understand viscerally: Why for most people does the word “predator,” and that for which it stands, have a negative connotation? What are some of the animals that it has been official US policy to dramatically reduce in numbers (and in some exterminate)? Among what group of people did attitudes toward predators first, according to JD, begin to change? How was this change related to the organic, climax model of ecology? And how was this change related to the idea of carrying capacity? What similarity exists between the S-shaped “logistic curve” of a population described on 177 and in the Limits to Growth charts presented in class? What does the U.S. Endangered Species Act require of the federal government? What is the difference between a “re-established species” (as defined in endangered species law) and “re-introduced” species? How are these different groups treated differently under such law?
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