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HL.c Environmental ethicsIB Environmental Systems and Societies HL: Flashcards

What these 14 flashcards ask

  • Define ethics.
  • What is environmental ethics?
  • Why do conflicting ethical values emerge?
  • Define instrumental value.
  • Define intrinsic value.
  • Are instrumental and intrinsic values exclusive?
  • What is moral standing?
  • Name the three major approaches in traditional ethics.
  • What does virtue ethics focus on?
  • What does consequentialist ethics focus on?
  • What does rights-based ethics focus on?
  • What is the appeal to nature fallacy?
  • How did environmental and social justice movements develop?
  • What common goal are these movements increasingly seeking?

Written by the Exaim team, led by Shaun Daswani (Head of Upper Secondary, Improve ME Institute; MSc Financial Mathematics, Imperial College London; BSc, UCL) and Jason Daswani (operational lead, Improve ME Institute; LSE).