Environmental Philosophy Exam Questions
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1) What are the 2 highly important things about people Deeply flawed as human beings we are greedy and self centered. We don't know
according to Taker mythology? how to live with these flaws, and are bound to mess them up (disaster!)
1a) How do these 2 things finish our culture's "explaining The explaining story is the story Taker cultures use in order to define themselves
story" and encourage us to destroy ourselves? (Hint: Be as the end to evolution and that the world was created for them. There's a
sure to discuss what an "explaining story" is and to beginning middle and end
provide an overview of this story and its reasoning in
Taker culture.)
Explaining Story: The Beginning. The beginning is the premise of the world was made for humanity and mean, and
the rationales of the beginning was the mythic interpretation of cosmic evolution;
the big bang, earth after the big bang, and then the humans appeared after that.
Humans evolved and have developed a technology to take control of evolution.
This makes evolution culminate with us.
Explaining Story: The Middle The middle is the destiny of humanity is to rule Earth because nature is chaotic,
meaning humans have to master it. For example, Extreme weather, religious
support; Genesis i26 "God put us on Earth," supporting the idea of humans adding
order onto the Earth. We basically have dominion over everything.
Explaining Story: The End The end is that there are two fundamental things about human nature. Humans are
fundamentally flawed with biases and have greed prioritizing other things over
basic resources, causing us to form an apathy for the environment. Class divisions
deter groups of people from escaping crises vs. preventing them. humans don't
know ow to live, therefore not knowing how to work with our own flaws, bringing
a tragic end to the story.
2) According to Jensen, what is the silencing that is central According to Jensen, silencing is the act of suppressing the past and not letting
to the workings of our culture? one
speak about it. Jensen also explains how it is the refusal to want to hear the words
from the ones we had dominated over through religion, science, philosophy, etc.
We use these in order to explain why we are suppressing the minority groups.
, 2a) what is the essence and what are the "ways" of The essence of this is the willingness to forget. We choose to forget certain things
silencing? that either happen in our lives or what happens in history because it is too much
to hear. We pretend that the violence we enacted on the indigenous groups,
minorities, etc was inevitable and just happens in life. We think this because we
make ourselves forget the gruesomeness of the events. The way we do this is we
live in our own world of make believe and denial making it so we don't remember
and we forget everything.
2b) What is its philosophical basis? The philosophical basis is based on philosophers like Decartes, Bacon, Aristotle,
and others who have urged us to deny things that happen to us and other
creatures. Jensen says we are not to blame them for this philosophy because they
only emphasized the ways we live. For example, Decartes' experiments of dogs
saying that the dogs yelp and cry is nothing because they cannot feel pain. We
are silencing not just us but the animals' feelings. We as humans believed that
dogs and other animals could not feel pain because we denied the belief of dogs
having feelings. Decartes and other philosophers are explained to be mythmakers
who attempt to provide rational justifications, like a dog not being able to feel, for
things that cannot be justified.
Both bacon and descartes the goal of culture and philosophy is to concur nature
Decarte in order to conquer nature is to body in motion and the mind is only for
humans but for him everything has a body thus others cannot experience and
cannot feel
Oppresses animals → we can without any remorse or concern that we can treat
animals however we want → oppressing human if u dont have the same mind then
i can treat u different
3) According to Jensen, how does a "claim to virtue" of A "claim to virtue" is convincing yourself and a group of people that what you are
the European settlers of North America? doing is beneficial to society. One cannot justify mass atrocity like genocide or
deforestration without a claim to Virtue. For example, the Nazi's would have never
saw killing Jewish people as a beneficial thing for society to do without Hitler
claiming that the Jews were bad people and that in order to have a perfect society
we needed to kill all jews.
3a) What does he argue was the "claim of virtue" of the Jenson explains how the European settlers ran into the same problems we do in
European settlers of North America? todays world, which is, we can't take over the land without causing a mass
destruction to it, like deforestation and moving the native groups out. The
European settlers turned to God in order to help explain this. They said that God
called on them to do this and move into the land that wasn't theirs and rip down
the forests and destroy the land the Indigenous were living on all for themselves.
They later called this manifest destiny. This idea of manifest destiny was a claim to
virtue that evoked making money. This was an operation that was deemed as
good and profitable for the Europeans yet was all about control and domination
over the indigenous peoples. By having God be their claim to virtue it was a way
to have it come from a power bigger than them who "controls" and tells them
what's good and bad for them to do.
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Key Vocabulary for Philosophy, Liter... Intro philosophy Philosophy & Logic: Key Concepts in... The He
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1) What are the 2 highly important things about people Deeply flawed as human beings we are greedy and self centered. We don't know
according to Taker mythology? how to live with these flaws, and are bound to mess them up (disaster!)
1a) How do these 2 things finish our culture's "explaining The explaining story is the story Taker cultures use in order to define themselves
story" and encourage us to destroy ourselves? (Hint: Be as the end to evolution and that the world was created for them. There's a
sure to discuss what an "explaining story" is and to beginning middle and end
provide an overview of this story and its reasoning in
Taker culture.)
Explaining Story: The Beginning. The beginning is the premise of the world was made for humanity and mean, and
the rationales of the beginning was the mythic interpretation of cosmic evolution;
the big bang, earth after the big bang, and then the humans appeared after that.
Humans evolved and have developed a technology to take control of evolution.
This makes evolution culminate with us.
Explaining Story: The Middle The middle is the destiny of humanity is to rule Earth because nature is chaotic,
meaning humans have to master it. For example, Extreme weather, religious
support; Genesis i26 "God put us on Earth," supporting the idea of humans adding
order onto the Earth. We basically have dominion over everything.
Explaining Story: The End The end is that there are two fundamental things about human nature. Humans are
fundamentally flawed with biases and have greed prioritizing other things over
basic resources, causing us to form an apathy for the environment. Class divisions
deter groups of people from escaping crises vs. preventing them. humans don't
know ow to live, therefore not knowing how to work with our own flaws, bringing
a tragic end to the story.
2) According to Jensen, what is the silencing that is central According to Jensen, silencing is the act of suppressing the past and not letting
to the workings of our culture? one
speak about it. Jensen also explains how it is the refusal to want to hear the words
from the ones we had dominated over through religion, science, philosophy, etc.
We use these in order to explain why we are suppressing the minority groups.
, 2a) what is the essence and what are the "ways" of The essence of this is the willingness to forget. We choose to forget certain things
silencing? that either happen in our lives or what happens in history because it is too much
to hear. We pretend that the violence we enacted on the indigenous groups,
minorities, etc was inevitable and just happens in life. We think this because we
make ourselves forget the gruesomeness of the events. The way we do this is we
live in our own world of make believe and denial making it so we don't remember
and we forget everything.
2b) What is its philosophical basis? The philosophical basis is based on philosophers like Decartes, Bacon, Aristotle,
and others who have urged us to deny things that happen to us and other
creatures. Jensen says we are not to blame them for this philosophy because they
only emphasized the ways we live. For example, Decartes' experiments of dogs
saying that the dogs yelp and cry is nothing because they cannot feel pain. We
are silencing not just us but the animals' feelings. We as humans believed that
dogs and other animals could not feel pain because we denied the belief of dogs
having feelings. Decartes and other philosophers are explained to be mythmakers
who attempt to provide rational justifications, like a dog not being able to feel, for
things that cannot be justified.
Both bacon and descartes the goal of culture and philosophy is to concur nature
Decarte in order to conquer nature is to body in motion and the mind is only for
humans but for him everything has a body thus others cannot experience and
cannot feel
Oppresses animals → we can without any remorse or concern that we can treat
animals however we want → oppressing human if u dont have the same mind then
i can treat u different
3) According to Jensen, how does a "claim to virtue" of A "claim to virtue" is convincing yourself and a group of people that what you are
the European settlers of North America? doing is beneficial to society. One cannot justify mass atrocity like genocide or
deforestration without a claim to Virtue. For example, the Nazi's would have never
saw killing Jewish people as a beneficial thing for society to do without Hitler
claiming that the Jews were bad people and that in order to have a perfect society
we needed to kill all jews.
3a) What does he argue was the "claim of virtue" of the Jenson explains how the European settlers ran into the same problems we do in
European settlers of North America? todays world, which is, we can't take over the land without causing a mass
destruction to it, like deforestation and moving the native groups out. The
European settlers turned to God in order to help explain this. They said that God
called on them to do this and move into the land that wasn't theirs and rip down
the forests and destroy the land the Indigenous were living on all for themselves.
They later called this manifest destiny. This idea of manifest destiny was a claim to
virtue that evoked making money. This was an operation that was deemed as
good and profitable for the Europeans yet was all about control and domination
over the indigenous peoples. By having God be their claim to virtue it was a way
to have it come from a power bigger than them who "controls" and tells them
what's good and bad for them to do.
