The Value of Nature: A Holistic Perception

Arvind Jasrotia

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The Value of Nature: A Holistic Perception

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Pages:: 19–36

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848880146_003

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Environmentalists fear that without a belief in ‘a whole that is greater than us’, we have no reason to value nature for itself. How can a purely secular ethic, their argument goes, do justice to our concern for the preservation of things for their own sake rather then for the pleasure they give us? Proceeding from the sole basis of human interests, we can show the undesirability of environmental degradation only to an extent, we cannot show it to be undesirable in general. The endeavour of environmental ethics remains fundamentally incomplete without the clarification of intrinsic value. After all, the initial philosophical problem sparked by the environmental crisis concerns this question directly: something is wrong with the destruction of nature, something valuable is destroyed, how can we make theoretical sense of the value apparently contained in nature? Hence, the question of nature’s value is not peripheral or supplementary to the task of environmental ethics. It lies at the very heart of the philosophical endeavour.

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Connected Accountabilities: Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship

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Print Publication Date:: 08 May 2009

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