Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts

Monday, May 25, 2015

Biocentrism

Biocentrism (Greek: βίος, bio, "life"; and κέντρον, kentron, "center"), in a political and ecological sense, is an ethical point of view which extends inherent value to non-human species, ecosystems, and processes in nature - regardless of their sentience. It stands in contrast to anthropocentrism which centers on the value of humans.

Monday, September 10, 2007

Unconscionable

Unscrupluous.

e.g. I told my mom that flying in an airplane is unconscionable due to it's affect on the environment.

synanthrope

 A synanthrope (from ancient Greek σύν sýn "together, with" and ἄνθρωπος ánthrōpos "man") is an organism that evolve...