ENVIRONMENT ETHICS

AND PROPERTIES
Created by Group 2
 ENVIRONMENTAL

ETHICS
Environmental ethics is a branch of

applied philosophy that studies the

conceptual foundations of

environmental values as well as more

concrete issues surrounding societal

attitudes, actions, and policies to

protect and sustain biodiversity and

ecological systems.
 ENVIRONMENTAL

ETHICS
The main competing paradigms are

anthropocentrism, physiocentrism (called

ecocentrism as well), and theocentrism.

Environmmental ethics exerts influence on a

large range of disciplines including

environmental law, environmental sociology,

ecotheology, ecological economics, ecology

and environmental geography.

 ANTHROPOCENTRISM

Anthropocentrism literally means human-

centered, but in its most relevant

philosophical form it is the ethical belief that

humans alone possess intrinsic value. In

contradistinction, all other beings hold value

only in their ability to serve humans, or in

their instrumental value.

 PSYCHOCENTRISM

Psychocentrism or Ecocentrism is the

principle that believes that human beings

hold more value in the environment since

their mental capacities are better

developed and far more complex than any

other element in the environment.

 THEOCENTRICISM

Theocentricism is the belief that God is the

central aspect to existence, as opposed to

anthropocentrism and existentialism. In this

view, meaning and value of actions done to

people or the environment are attributed to

God.