Sentences with phrase «value of individual organisms»

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).

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Many of its adherents refuse to acknowledge the sanctity and equality of human life, instead taking the so - called «quality of life» approach, which determines the moral value of each organism — whether human, animal, or plant — by measuring its individual cognitive capacities.

I show how these two movements are, at face value, conflicting: the first emphasizing the rights of ecosystems, the second those of individual organisms.

Nothing can be good for the tribe as such; «good» and «value» pertain only to a living organism — to an individual living organism — not to a disembodied aggregate of relationships.