Value

The moral standing that exists in the human part of the relationship lends moral weight to the object by what could be called a principle of attraction. That may not dispose of Kaufman's concern that environmental ethics reaches "very murky areas of philosophy" (84), but why should discourse of environmental ethics be any less murky than other ethical discourse?

A presumption of moral content is consistent with Regan's argument that nonhuman natural objects have something like goodness inherent in them. Regan's most forceful argument is that inherent value commands "admiring respect," which can of course come only from conscious (human) sources, and that "gives rise to the preservation principle" (91). Similar articulations can be found in Rodman's "propriety principle" (125-6), which calls for scrutiny of the nature of, so to speak, nature, and Midgley's ide

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