Itch scratching, patio building, and pesky flies: Biocentric individualism revisited

Environmental Ethics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 115-128

  Davion, Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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EID: 33744488259     PISSN: 01634275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/enviroethics200628227     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. Jason Kawall, "Reverence for Life as a Viable Environmental Virtue," Environmental Ethics 25 (2003): 339-58.
2. Following Kawall, I am limiting my discussion to what he calls "Western contexts." I am not arguing that "reverence for life" is counterintuitive or meaningless in other cultural contexts.
3. Kawall, "Reverence for Life," p. 339.
4. Kawall, " Reverence for Life," p. Ibid., p. 341.
5. Ibid.
6. Nicholas Agar, Life's Intrinsic Value: Science, Ethics, and Nature (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), p. 64.
7. One could also raise the issue of whether it is the individual blades of grass or the lawn itself that is the "individual" to be protected by biocentric individualism. However, I won't address this question here.
8. Kawall, "Reverence for Life," p. 342.
9. Mark Michael, "To Swat or Not to Swat: Pesky Flies, Environmental Ethics, and the Supererogatory," Environmental Ethics 18 (1996): 165-80; p. 171.
10. Ibid.
11. Kawall, "Reverence for Life," p. 347.
12. Joseph R. Desjardines, Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 2001), p. 146.
13. Paul W. Taylor, Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), p. 171.
14. Kawall, "Reverence for Life," p. 355.
15. Ibid.
16. Kawall, "Reverence for Life," p. 354.
17. Kawall, " Reverence for Life," p. Ibid., pp. 389-90.
18. Kawall, " Reverence for Life," p. Ibid., p. 356.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid., p. 357.
21. Ibid.
22. Michael, "To Swat or Not to Swat," p. 172.
23. Michael, " To Swat or Not to Swat," p. Ibid., p. 179.
24. Michael, " To Swat or Not to Swat," p. Ibid., p. 347.
25. Michael, " To Swat or Not to Swat," p. Ibid., p. 356.
26. David Solomon, "Internal Objections to Virtue Ethics," in Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling, and Howard K. Wettstein, eds., Moral Concepts (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1996), p. 489.
27. Kawall, "Reverence for Life," p. 357.
28. Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Penguin Books, 1963).