Choose one of the following topics to respond to for your initial post, should be least 250 minimum words, and be sure to quote from the readings to illustrate your points, followed by MLA citation, both in-text and on a Works Cited page.
Topic A: Environmental Ethics
Look up the term Environmental Ethics at http://plato.stanford.edu/, then answer the following questions: Do you think that a book, a plant, or a building can be said to have a good of its own? Can things be done in its best interest? Does it have interests? Explain your answers and whether you think that this is a good reason to think of that as having intrinsic value.
Topic B: Self-Evident Intuitions
Westermarck writes, “…a theory which leads to an examination of the psychological and historical origin of people’s moral opinions should be more useful t