Book contents
- Ethics and the Environment
- Cambridge Applied Ethics
- Ethics and the Environment
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Table
- Preface
- 1 The Environment as an Ethical Question
- 2 Human Morality
- 3 Moral Philosophy
- 4 Normative Ethics
- 5 Humans and Other Animals
- 6 Animals, Food, and the Environment
- 7 The Value of Nature
- 8 The Plurality of Values
- 9 California Conflicts
- 10 Nature’s Future
- 11 How Should I Live?
- References
- Index
8 - The Plurality of Values
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- Ethics and the Environment
- Cambridge Applied Ethics
- Ethics and the Environment
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Table
- Preface
- 1 The Environment as an Ethical Question
- 2 Human Morality
- 3 Moral Philosophy
- 4 Normative Ethics
- 5 Humans and Other Animals
- 6 Animals, Food, and the Environment
- 7 The Value of Nature
- 8 The Plurality of Values
- 9 California Conflicts
- 10 Nature’s Future
- 11 How Should I Live?
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter returns to some central questions about value and valuing, including questions of intrinsic value and the distinction between values and preferences. It argues for value pluralism and discusses specifically prudential values, cultural values, aesthetic values, and natural values. Prudential values are those that relate to an agent’s own interests; cultural values are those that take artifacts or expressions as their objects; aesthetic values include beauty, but also other features such as the sublime; natural values are those that arise from nature’s autonomy. These and other values can conflict. Resources are available for resolving or reducing some value conflicts, but others are at least in practice unresolvable.
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- Ethics and the EnvironmentAn Introduction, pp. 154 - 179Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024