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.

2. Prayer

3. Classroom
rules:

4. • Raise your hand if you
want to speak.
• Listen when someone is
talking.
• Please be cooperative.
• Have fun and do your best.

5. “ What was our
topic/
discussion last
week?

6. Look at the following
pictures closely. After
doing it, please
answer the following
questions.

8. 1. What did you feel upon
seeing the pictures?
2. What are your thoughts
on the degradation of our
environment?

9. The Human
Person in
their
Environment

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.

11. S_ST_INA_LE
D_V_LO_ME_T

12. Sustainable
Development

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.

16. Three
Important
Principles of
Sustainability:

17. E_vi_on_en_al
Int_gr_ty

18. 1. Environmental Integrity
- Refers to maintaining the
state of the environment.

19. Ec_n_m_c
E_fi_ie_cy

20. 2. Economic Efficiency
- Refers to prudence in
decision-making regarding
the use of resources to
ensure that there is
minimum to zero waste.

21. 2. Economic Efficiency
- Prudence is the ability
to regulate one’s actions
and behavior.

22. Eq_it_

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.

24. 3. Equity
- Frugality is being thrifty
with the use of one’s
resources.

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26. Environmental
Ethics

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.

28. Views on the
Attribution of Moral
Consideration:

29. + centrism
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30. 1. Anthropocentrism
- Only humans are
assigned intrinsic value.
- Considers human beings
as the center of moral
consideration.

31. + centrism

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.

34. + centrism
- flu

35. 3. Biocentrism
- Is the view that not
only humans and animals,
but also plants should be
morally considerable.

36. +
centrism

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?

41. As a responsible
human person, how
will you protect our
environment?

42. 42

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.

45. 3-5. Give the
three important
principles of
Sustainability.

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.

48. Thank
you!