Environmental Ethics:  What are the issues?

1.  Who are "moral patients"?

2.  What is "speciesism"?

3.  What is "sentience"?

4.   What is "sentientism"?

5.  What is "ecocentrism"?

6.  What is the difference between "rights -based" and "utilitarian" ethics?

7.  Which ethicist talks about the "biocentric outlook" on nature?

8.  What is "moral individualism"?  Does Leopold's "land ethic" advocate moral individualism?

9. What is "inherent value"?  

10.  What is the difference between "ecocentrism" and "ecoholism"?  What is the best category for Leopold's "land ethic"?  How would you characterize the "earth-people" philosophy?

11.  What are the differences between the "land ethic" and "earth-people" philosophy of Wallace Black Elk?

12.  What is your personal philosophy of environmental ethics?  How did you choose this perspective?