A presentation on the large world thatis

1. Purshia Gambles
Honors Integrated Science
November 19, 2012

2. Why Environmental
Philosophy, You Ask?

3. What is it?
 On the surface, you
would think of a
bunch of old guys
under a tree asking,
“how do we know
that this leaf is
happy?” But this is
not the case.

4.  Environmental philosophy is a branch of
philosophy that is concerned with the
natural environment and humans' place
within it. Environmental philosophy
includes environmental ethics,
environmental aesthetics, ecofeminism
and environmental theology.

5. Environmental
Ethics
Environmental
Philosophy
Environmental
Aesthetics
Environmental
Ecofeminism
Theology

7. Environmental Ethics
 Environmental ethics is the part
of environmental philosophy which
considers extending the traditional
boundaries of ethics from solely
including humans to including the non-
human world

8.  In this part of environmental philosophy,
people ask the questions we are the
most familiar with, such as, “Should we
chop down that tree to make currency?”
or “What things do we need to preserve
for our future generations?”

9. Environmental Aesthetics
 Environmental aesthetics originated as a
reaction to an emphasis on merely
aesthetics, pursuing instead the
investigation of the aesthetic
appreciation of natural environments.

10. WHAT’S IT ALL MEAN?!?!?!?!

11. Environmental Theology
 Three basic views:
 The Creator-God exists externally to the
physical world.
 God exists internally in the environment.
 God does not exist.

14. Ecofeminism
 Ecofeminism is the social movement
that regards the oppression of women
and nature as interconnected. It is one
of the few movements and analyses that
actually connects two movements.

15.  Ecofeminism combines the movement of
women’s rights with the movement to care
and preserve the Earth.

16. Works Cited
 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-
environmental/
 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-
environmental/
 http://enviroethics.org/
 http://www.ecofem.org/
 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/twine/ecofe
m/whatisecofeminism.html