Question

The article "Environmental Ethics" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy asserts that it is generally agreed that the core structure of what ecological movement includes a critique of "hierarchical thinking", and the "logic of domination"? These critiques could be applied to many ecological movements, but these terms best characterize the critiques of one below.a. Non-anthropocentric Christianity. b. The New Animism c. Deep Ecology d. Ecofeminism

Answer 1

The points about "hierarchical thinking" and the "logic of domination" dealt with in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy best characterize the critiques of Non-anthropocentric Christianity. During an environmental crisis, historian Lynn White claimed that religious thinking was extremely anthropocentric because it encouraged the overexploitation of animals and nature for the sake of humans. This way of thinking highlights human superiority over the rest of the world. Therefore, the human can consume anything to their advantage, no matter how unfair this could be for other species. In fact, a passage of the Bible states, For example, in Genesis 1: 27–8: “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created him; male and female created them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” That is why the Non-anthropocentric Christianity criticize the hierarchical thinking and the logic of domination of the anthropocentric point of view.