About the anthropocentric/ecocentric cleavage in environmental philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.31977/grirfi.v23i2.3273Keywords:
Ecophilosophy; Environmental Ethic; Ecocentrism; Weak Anthropocentrism; Environmental Pragmatism.Abstract
Environmental philosophy emerged in the 1970s, driven by the impetus for reflection on the imminence of an ecological crisis and its deeper causes. And the central question that motivated the pioneering works in this field was the criticism of human centering in terms of moral value, that is, the assumption that homo sapiens constitutes the only locus of value in the face of other species and the more than human nature as one all. The demand for a new, an environmental, ethics arises precisely from the challenge to the predominant anthropocentrism in the Western philosophical tradition, in the light of the ideas of continuity and interdependence of the human in relation to the more-than-human world, suggested by the principles of ecological science. This proposal, however, raised an interesting debate about the viability and implications of senciocentric, biocentric and ecocentric postures, as a way of substantiating intrinsic value beyond human moral agency. The so-called anthropocentric-ecocentric cleavage precisely marks the poles of this debate, which marked the first steps of environmental philosophy and extended to political ecology. Despite some attempts to portray non-anthropocentric postures as a dogma to be overcome in the evolution of research in environmental ethics, this article seeks to argue that the question remains open, especially from a recent resumption of criticism of anthropocentrism by a group of authors and authors linked to environmental sciences.
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