DEĞER, NORM VE ÇEVRE ETİĞİ

Yıl 2011, Sayı: 53, 192 - 208, 15.07.2011

Mahmut Özer

Öz

J. Baird Callicott, çevre etiğinin özerk bir disiplin olabilmesi için, insan
dışı varlıklara özsel değer yüklenilmesinin zorunlu olduğuna inanmaktadır. Yazının
ilk bölümünde Callicott’un insan dışı varlıkların özsel değeri hakkında
ileri sürdüğü görüşler irdelenmektedir. Çevre etiği açısından bir başka önemli
konu da onun normatif gücüdür. İkinci bölümde doğal varlıklara değer yüklemenin ve Aristotelesçi “iyi yaşam” kavramının çevre etiğinin normatif gücüne
olası etkileri tartışılmaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Çevre etiği, özsel değer, araçsal değer, normatif güç, iyi yaşam, Aristoteles, Leopold, Callicott, O’Neill.

VALUE, NORM, AND ENVİRONMENTAL ETHİCS

Öz

J. Baird Callicott believes that we have to attribute intrinsic value to nonhuman
entities in order to have environmental ethics as an autonomous discipline.
Callicott’s views about the intrinsic value of non-human entities are
scrutinized in the first part of the paper. Normative power of environmental
ethics is another significant subject matter. In the second part, possible effects
of the value attribution to natural entities and Aristotelean “good life” on the
normative power of environmental ethics are discussed.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Environmental ethics, intrinsic value, instrumental value, normative power, good life, Aristotle, Leopold, Callicott, O’Neill.

Kaynakça

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• Tom Regan, “Does Environmental Ethics Rest on a Mistake?” Monist, 75, 2, La Salle, Illinois 1992, ss. 161-182.