CARL JORDAN’S CONSERVATION ETHICS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON NIGERIA’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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The late 19th century introduced an important direction towards ethics which made
the art of Philosophy more pragmatic than theoretical. For the foremost part, this sort of
pragmatism was not stereotypical and stream-lined to human values and actions owards
each other, but human values and actions towards the natural environment. This extension of ethics to nature, led to the tenets of environmental philosophy, which during the course of philosophical history, have had its place as an implication or consequence of a particular philosophical argument; for example, the Greek Philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle hinted on nature as a result of their philosophical doctrines. Plato saw nature as a photocopy of an ideal, that is, natural entities were seen as imitations of the real in the
world of forms. Aristotle, who adopted a more realistic system of thought, opines that
nature fulfills its design and become aesthetically valuable when it serves the purpose of
man’s utility for which it was created.
the art of Philosophy more pragmatic than theoretical. For the foremost part, this sort of
pragmatism was not stereotypical and stream-lined to human values and actions owards
each other, but human values and actions towards the natural environment. This extension of ethics to nature, led to the tenets of environmental philosophy, which during the course of philosophical history, have had its place as an implication or consequence of a particular philosophical argument; for example, the Greek Philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle hinted on nature as a result of their philosophical doctrines. Plato saw nature as a photocopy of an ideal, that is, natural entities were seen as imitations of the real in the
world of forms. Aristotle, who adopted a more realistic system of thought, opines that
nature fulfills its design and become aesthetically valuable when it serves the purpose of
man’s utility for which it was created.
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