Original scientific paper
Plants Species Protection and 'Moral Status' of Plants - an Ethical Inquiry
Katica Knezović
orcid.org/0000-0003-3264-5367
; The Faculty of Teacher Education of the University of Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Various positions of ecological ethics have been presented towards the protection of plant species and its ecological systems, but in none of those arguments, the plants should be protected because of the individual plant itself. The most anthropocentric or anthroporelational oriented positions represent human interests. Biocentric, physio-centric and holistic positions only treat the plants inclusively. Whether people in their actions behave right or wrong to the plants, and whether the consequences of this behavior are ethically relevant is not the case only in the aspect of of human interests and needs, but because of the plants themselves, depending on what a "moral status" plants have. Their "moral status" has been grounded on the moral standards of the human beings.
Keywords
Plants; moral status; ecological ethics; bioethics
Hrčak ID:
101038
URI
Publication date:
9.12.2008.
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