Environmental ethics question, true/false

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Sagoff argues that environmentalists and animal liberationists have more in common than they think.

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Adams believes that the symbology of meat consumption is a core element of masculine subjectivity in most cultures.

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Norton-Smith compares the Shawnee concept of “manitou” to the Western concept of “mind.”

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Kant argued that human beings have direct duties to animals.

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Aristotle theorized that bees, as gregarious animals, must use complex forms of speech to communicate the location of food and water.

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Kant believed that all and only rational beings are persons.

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Leopold argued that conservation should be made easy so that everybody can do it without too big of a sacrifice.

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Deloria argues that sacred sites are not just experienced subjectively but that they have an objective component as well.

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Norton-Smith believes that the main criterion for personhood should be sentience.

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For Leopold, economic incentives for conservation succeed in some cases but will never be sufficient to sustain the biotic community.

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According to Sagoff, the central principle of humane utilitarianism is to reduce animal suffering.

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Carol Adams calls her point of view “paleo-feminism.”

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Uncompromising animal liberationists like Singer believe that dogs, cats, and cows should be able to vote.

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Adams believes that men tend to eat more meat because of their higher nutritional need for protein.

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Singer’s argument suggests that most people are speciesist.

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A central concern of the Occupy movement has been the decolonization of Native lands in the United States.

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According to Bunge, whites believe that Native Americans waste the land.

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For Leopold, humans and other large omnivores are at the top of the land pyramid because they are the most advanced and influential species.

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Bunge argues that land is not some external object but that it is constituted by the feeling or experience we have of it.

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Norton-Smith claims that all beings that are animate are also alive in the biological sense.

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From an ecocentric perspective, the most important value is the integrity of the biotic community as a whole.

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Tuck and Yang believe that the United States is a nation of immigrants.

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Adams claims that most patriarchal cultures sexualize animals and animal flesh.

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Descartes argued that animals have eternal souls but that they will never get into heaven because they are sinful fornicators.

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For Singer, all living organisms deserve equal moral consideration.

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In the film Standing on Sacred Ground, Native Hawaiians reclaimed an island that had been used for testing __________________________________.

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According to Bunge, the human relation to land is constituted by a __________________________.

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“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the __________________________, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.”

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Singer emphasizes that equal consideration should not be confused with equal _____________________________________.

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For Kant, the ability of rational beings to give themselves moral laws implies that they should never be used merely as a means because they are _____________________________________ (three words).

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In Alberta, Canada, Indigenous peoples are battling the environmental fallout from the mining of __________________________________________ (two words).

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According to Tuck and Yang, American Indian peoples live in a structural form of oppression that is properly called ________________________________________________ (two words).

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Deloria argues that sacred places must remain __________________________.

Last Updated on February 11, 2019