The Intrinsic Value of Endangered Species
Why save endangered species without clear aesthetic, economic, or ecosystemic value? This book takes on this challenging question through an account of the intrinsic goods of species. Ian A. Smith argues that a species' intrinsic value stems from its ability to flourish-its organisms continuing to reproduce successfully and it avoiding extinction-which helps to demonstrate a further claim, that humans ought to preserve species that we have endangered. He shows our need to exercise humility in our relations with endangered species through the preservation of their intrinsic goods, which in turn rectifies our degradation of their importance. Un…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-317-60596-6
- EAN: 9781317605966
- Produktnummer: 19572474
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 172 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 9, 8 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Ian A. Smith is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Washburn University, US
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