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While the Latin term itself originates in scholasticism, it reflects the Aristotelian view of man as a creature distinguished by a rational principle.In the Nicomachean Ethics I.13, Aristotle states that the human being has a rational principle (Greek: λόγον ἔχον), on top of the nutritive life shared with plants, and the instinctual life shared with other animals, i. e., the ability ...
The book was published in 1996 by Harvard University Press under the full title Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals. Much of the book details observations of primate behavior, especially that of chimpanzees and bonobos. [1] On the final page, he concludes:
Biocentrism (from Greek βίος bios, "life" and κέντρον kentron, "center"), in a political and ecological sense, as well as literally, is an ethical point of view that extends equal inherent value to all living things. [1]
The relationship between animal ethics and environmental ethics concerns the differing ethical consideration of individual nonhuman animals—particularly those living in spaces outside of direct human control—and conceptual entities such as species, populations and ecosystems.
Only God or Nature is good, [41] and Nature is perfectly rational. [42] It is an organic unity and completely ordered. [43] The goodness of Nature manifests in the way it works to arrange things in the most rational way. [42] For the Stoics this is therefore the most reasonable, the most rational, of all possible worlds. [44] [45]
Celebrate Earth Day 2024 with these inspiring sayings about honoring nature and the environment. Share famous quotes from world leaders, activists and writers.
Quotes about trees and forests “Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.” — John Muir “I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees.”
Johannsen starts by examining the question of what is good about nature. He puts forward a number of arguments for why wild animals generally do not live good lives, such as the dominance of reproductive strategies which mean that large numbers of offspring are born, of which the great majority experience suffering and die before reaching adulthood.