Sentences with phrase «intrinsic value of nature»

Favoring corporate profits over the intrinsic value of nature.

The researchers rated the economic benefits derived from five ecosystem services: sustainable bush meat hunting; timber harvest; bioprospecting for pharmaceuticals; carbon storage; and so - called existence value, or the intrinsic value of nature «as a source of wonder and inspiration,» the researchers write in the paper presenting their finding published yesterday in PLoS Biology.

Hegel does try to salvage the intrinsic value of nature by claiming that in the process of providing for the liberation of spirit, nature itself is thereby liberated, for nature «in itself is reason» (PN 204).

Not exact matches

Staying within a religious view of the world, there are at least two ways to conceive of nature having intrinsic value.

The main reason that nature lacks intrinsic value is necessarily linked to the orthodox idea of creatio ex nihilo, a view that essentially makes all created things completely contingent upon divine power.

In traditional theism nature has no intrinsic value, so the fact that it exists merely for God's purposes and is then destroyed is of no moral consequence.

With its emphasis on nature as a vast web of interdependence that is alive through and through, it affirms with Schweitzer that individual creatures, human included, have intrinsic value.

It suggests that the whole of nature is part of the divine self; it shows how the exploitation of nature impoverishes the very richness of divine experience; it encourages a respect for the intrinsic value of individual organisms; and, in saying that God loves the world as a self loves a body, it suggests that embodiedness itself is a good to be cherished rather than an evil to be avoided (McFague, 74).

Their own intrinsic value is that of being organic parts of biotic communities, and ultimately, of nature as a whole.

If I were to guess — and that is all any outsider can do at this point — I would say that the language of intrinsic value still in the Charter, granting nature some immunity from human need, language which, as noted, the Earth Charter Commission regards as essential and nonnegotiable, will prove the final stumbling block to official acceptance.

It should be easier to believe that at this point Whitehead was not thinking of events in nature as having subjectivity or experience, when we see how many thinkers today affirm the intrinsic value of the natural world and the interconnectedness of all things without taking this step.

His metaphysics demands this correspondence theory of truth which entails that the truth value of propositions be intrinsic to the nature of a proposition.

Hasker next suggests that my position on the nature of intrinsic value is counter-intuitive by concluding — from my argument that within the Hick1 - lasker type of theism our enjoyment of freedom could be the same whether we had real or only apparent freedom (as Hick himself had said)-- that I would hold that falsely thinking one is loved and knows the truth is «just as valuable» as really knowing the truth and really being loved, so that these latter relations are «not of any worth in themselves.»

«The Good Egg» draws a link between the viability of the egg before conception and the intrinsic value of the embryo: «If, as some ethicists argue, nascent life must be protected, how do we assess the degree of moral entitlement due a nascent entity that fails to pass nature's own muster perhaps 80 percent of the time?»

Comment: Diamonds are not particularly rare in nature, nor do they have any intrinsic value, so how did they become the symbol of our deepest feelings of romantic love and commitment?

On the other side of the intrinsic value investing continuum from Graham's Security Analysis, Fisher teaches us the value of intangibles and the dynamic nature of business value.

In international terms, Arte Povera is the most famous and most influential Italian art movement of the late 20th century, marked by the sweeping aside of limits of space and time and the accomplished form of the artwork in favour of a greater focus on the processes, on the intrinsic value of materials, on nature and the senses as a possibility of life and not of representation.

In my view, the three biggest issues that Kareiva fails in discussing are: (a) compromise, (b) intrinsic value of relatively undisturbed nature, and (c) capitalism.

Or, it can be impossible: an attempt to attribute a price to the intrinsic value of human life, living things and nature itself.

It is also an attempt to attribute a price to the intrinsic value of human life, living things and nature itself.

Let's step outside what's being negotiated here at COP15 for one second and consider the notion that even if we get a fair, ambitious and binding climate agreement at the end of next week it really misses the point — the point that we are not focusing on the sources of pollution, we are still commodifying forests, instead of legally recognizing that their is intrinsic value in nature.

He studied 10,000 people over 20 years and compared them with those who more put value on intrinsic things — quality of relationships, relationship to nature — and he found the high consumer - minded people are less happy.