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Environmental Ethics |
• Part of Environmental Philosophy • it considers extending the traditional boundaries of ethics from solely including humans and non-human world. |
1 Traditional boundaries of ethics |
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Environmental Aesthetics |
• Aesthetic experience of the world • focuses on questions concerning appreciation of the world. • that world as its constituted not simply by particular objects but also by environment themselves |
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Ecofeminism |
• area of environmental philosophy that links feminism with ecology • it seeks to eradicate all forms of social injustices, not just injustice against woman and the environment. |
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Environmental Hermeneutics |
• area of Philosophy that apply the techniques & resources of the philosophical field of hermeneutics to environmental issues. • they relate to nature & environmental issues. |
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Environmental Theology |
• area of Philosophy that focuses on the understanding of God's relationship to cosmos or creation. |
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Freedom |
• power of right to act or think without hindrance • state of not being imprisoned or enslaved • the unrestricted use of somethings. |
Can be defined in three ways |
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Human Acts |
• Voluntary acts of man • acts done with full knowledge and consent • acts which consciously undertaken and are under control • acts that are proper to man as man • acts where man is master, i.e,.... Man chooses to do them |
Voluntary Man chooses to do them |
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Acts of Man |
• Activities of man like animal • acts which are not deliberately done nor voluntary. • Performed without the free will of the agent. • includes beating of the heart, dreaming, sensation by the five organs • acts which do not demand responsibility from the agent |
Not voluntary |
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Voluntariness |
• the acts falls under the efficacious determination of the agent • voluntary in something else, as in its cause. |
Elements of Human Acts |
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Freedom ー Authentic Freedom |
• the doer has the ability to initiate and control his own actions • first of all freedom from everything that opposes man's true self-becoming with others in the community |
Elements of Human acts |
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The act in itself |
• nature of the act which is either intrinsically/extrinsically evil |
Determinants of morality #1 |