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WorksheetsRespect for Nature
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What are the three main theories of environmental ethics?
Biocentrism, Homocentrism, Ecocentrism
Utilitarianism, Anthropocentrism, Biocentrism
Homocentrism, Biocentrism, Utilitarianism
Biocentrism is human-based.
TRUE
FALSE
Which environmental ethic refers to the belief that humans and their interests have a privileged moral status and values higher than the environment?
Utilitarianism
Homocentrism
Biocentrism
It is a theory of morality that advocates actions that foster happiness or pleasure and oppose actions that cause unhappiness or harm.
Utilitarianism
Homocentrism
Biocentrism
Homocentrism is a form of philosophical inquiry that explores the problem of human existence and centers on the experience of thinking, feeling, and acting.
TRUE
FALSE
When did Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill associate Utilitarianism as a tradition of ethical philosophy?
21st century
18th century
19th century
The differences among homocentrism, biocentrism, and utilitarianism are primarily brought by the difference over which among the members of the natural environment they believe to have moral status or to be presented with moral rights.
TRUE
FALSE
Who proposed the concept of the Biocentric Universe?
Robert Chartoff
Robert Lanza
Robert Downey
Utilitarianism also holds what?
Most Logical Choice
Most Hypothetical Choice
Most Ethical Choice
Homocentrism holds that the most ethical choice is the one that will produce the greatest good for the greatest number.
TRUE
FALSE
