1. (Lynn White) In Christian religion, nature is but an instrument that God puts in the hands of men. This view can be seen as the starting point of an interrogation about “what is wrong in man’s relationship to nature,” an interrogation that gave birth to environmental ethics as an ethical concern about nature, as a way of taking intrinsic value in nature seriously. This issue of the intrinsic value in nature is mostly what environmental ethics is about in the English-speaking world, and this has led to distinguishing between approaches with different focuses: biocentric, ecocentric, anthropocentric. All of them are related to a philosophy of nature, and develop an … Continue reading Catherine Larrère