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ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND INTRINSIC VALUE
In this chapter, different philosophies containing models of environmentalethics, which are based on some form of the INTRINSIC VALUE of the nonhuman,will be examined. The authors discussed are three of the more prominent envi-ronmental ethicists1who base their approach on the INTRINSIC VALUE of the non-human realm to various degrees. These authors will be presented in increasingorder of radicalism. Tom Regan argues for the INTRINSIC VALUE only of higheranimals, excluding INTRINSIC VALUE from plants and lower animals. Thusalthough he argues for the INTRINSIC VALUE of the nonhuman, this VALUE is morerestricted in scope than in the other two authors. J. Baird Callicott, followingAldo Leopold, argues for the land ethic, which attributes INTRINSIC VALUE moreholistically to species, habitats, ecosystems, and the like.
In this chapter, different philosophies containing models of environmental ethics, which are based on some form of the intrinsic value of the nonhuman,
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