The document discusses concepts related to sustainable development and environmental ethics. It defines sustainable development as development that meets present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own needs. It also outlines three important principles of sustainability: environmental integrity, economic efficiency, and equity. The document then defines environmental ethics as the discipline studying humanity's moral relationship to the environment. It presents four views on attributing moral consideration: anthropocentrism, pathocentrism, biocentrism, and ecocentrism.
10. Objectives:
• notice disorder in an
environment;
• articulate some of the
causes of the degradation
of our environment
nowadays; and
• show his/her concern and
care to our environment.
13. Sustainable Development
⪢ Is the development that
meet the needs of the
present without
compromising the ability
of future generations to
meet their own needs.
14. Sustainable Development
It contains within two key
concepts:
⪢ The concept of “need”, in
particular the essential
needs of the world’s poor;
and
15. Sustainable Development
⪢ The idea of limitations
imposed by the state of
technology and social
organization on the
environments’ ability to
meet present and future
needs.
23. 3. Equity
- Demands that we use our
natural resources in such a
manner that these are
conserved so that the next
generation will be able to use
them.
27. Environmental Ethics
⪢ The discipline in
philosophy that studies the
moral relationship of
human beings to and also
the value and moral status
of the environment and his
non-human contents.
32. 2. Pathocentrism
- Extends intrinsic value and
thus moral consideration to
higher forms of animals or
intelligent animals such as dogs
and chimpanzees who are
sentient.
33. 2. Pathocentrism
- Sentient: having the power
of perception by the senses;
conscious.
- Sentient beings therefore
have the capacity to feel pain,
and thus, suffering.
37. 4. Ecocentrism
- Regards ecosystems as
holistic entities that should
be given moral
consideration.
38. 4. Ecocentrism
- Ecosystem: the community
of living organisms in
conjunction with the non-living
components of their
environment interacting as a
system.
39. 4. Ecocentrism
- Thus, an action is right and
therefore, moral when it has the
tendency to preserve the
integrity, stability of biotic
community and wrong when it
does the opposite.
40. I know you’ve learn a
lot from todays
discussion, so anyone
can summarize the
lesson?
43. 1. It is the development that
meet the needs of the present
without compromising the
ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.
a. Sustainable Development
b. Environmental Ethics
44. 2. True/False
- Sustainability development is
the idea of limitations imposed
by the state of technology and
social organization on the
environments’ ability to meet
present and future needs.
46. 6. The discipline in philosophy that
studies the moral relationship of
human beings to and also the
value and moral status of the
environment and his non-human
contents.
a. Sustainable Development
b. Environmental Ethics
47. 7-10. Give the four
views on the
attribution of Moral
Consideration.
