Holmes Rolston III - Challenges in Environmental Ethics

There is something Newtonian, not yet Einsteinian, besides something morally naïve, about living in a reference frame where one species takes itself as absolute and values everything else relative to its utility. If true to their specific epithet, ought not Homo sapiens value this host of life with something of a claim to care in its own right? Man may be the only measurer of things, but is man the only measure of things?

 

Taken from the 1990 essay ‘Challenges in Environmental Ethics’ by the american philosopher Holmes Rolston III. 

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