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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Biocentrism"”.
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The Terraforming of Mars as Seen Through the Lens of Biocentrism and Ecocentrism
… dissertation undertakes to investigate whether biocentrism and ecocentrism can serve as a viable ethical framework to guide human space exploration in general and the terraforming and colonisation of Mars in particular. The first part involves the provision of the necessary background …
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United States population policies and environmental ethics: Addressing population growth from the biocentric perspective
… outlook. It is this paradigm shift towards biocentrism that we as moral agents should be making and which will subsequently cause us to view population growth in a new way. This argument is made by illuminating the inadequacies of the traditional anthropocentric ways of defining …
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Tendências de consideração moral e ensino de ciências: veiculação e perspectivas em uma sala de aula no município de Ouriçangas-Ba
… anthropocentrism, sentiocentrism, biocentrism, ecocentrism and socio-ecocentrism. In science classrooms, the approach to these categories includes the attitudinal dimension of the content and can be included in teaching processes, given their very epistemic nature. Thus, our study …
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The Ethics of Animal Advocacy: Towards Biocentric Individualism
… forms a<br/>complimentary and useful fusion. Biocentrism as a value theory asks for moral<br/>considerability to be centred upon a respect for individual nonhuman (and human) life and the possession/continuation of a flourishing individual life - neither of which, I contend, is at odds with …
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Love and ecology as an integrative force for good and as resistance to the commodification of nature and planetary harms: Introducing Fluminism.
… and philo-sophical position, alternative to biocentrism (Taylor), ecocentrism (Naess) and anthro-pocentrism (Passmore), and innately insubordinate to the consumption patterns of a di-visive and distorted socio-political and economic value system. Emotion and rationale are inseperable …
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Intimacy with the natural world: A humanistic perspective
… focused on the utilization of natural resources, biocentrism is focused on nature's conservation. The frontier and environmental narrative provides the explicit genealogy of intimacy-alienation, which are always in counterpoint with each other. Further still, if intimacy means only "intimacy with …
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Aldo Leopold's political thought : particularizing American environmental dialogue.
… America's four great environmental traditions: Biocentrism, which advocates protecting nature for its own sake; Progressivism, which sees conservation as a means toward increasing social justice and equity; Republicanism, which views a healthy human-nature relationship as essential to the …
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Concepções ambientalistas dos professores : suas implicações em educação ambiental
… o antropocentrismo (visão instrumental), o biocentrismo (reconhecimento do valor intrínseco dos outros seres vivos) e o ecocentrismo (atribuição de valor não instrumental a entidades holísticas, como os ecossistemas). De igual modo quisemos verificar a incidência destas mesmas perspectivas …
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Ekonomistické paradigma a jeho vliv na životní prostředí
The diploma thesis in the field of environmental ethics "The Economistic Paradigm and Its Impact on the Environment" wants to introduce the pitfalls of economically oriented behaviour of contemporary society and the effects of such behaviour on the environment. In this generally accepted model of …