Una crítica al antropocentrismo desde la ética ambiental

Abstract

In this work we start with the discussion about anthropocentrism between two aspects of environmental ethics: the points of view of the first promoters of this discipline and environmental pragmatism. The founders of environmental ethics propose to end the anthropocentric monopoly by means of a non anthropocentrism or anti-anthropocentrism; while the latter, criticize the impossibility of this and instead propose a moderate or weak anthropocentrism. Prior to the presentation of these proposals, the distinction between two controversial concepts present in the anthropocentric discussion is reviewed: anthropomorphism and anthropocentrism; Later a brief exposition of the anthropocentric mink that prevailed during much of the 20th century is elaborated, and finally the anthropocentric proposal of Bryan Norton is exposed,
who emphasizes that although we humans have been quite unconscious in our dealings with The natural entities, however, we can not leave aside our anthropocentrism, but we can, instead, modify our traditional vision, based on a
hard anthropocentrism, for a weak version that is more ponderous.