Emma Marris on Ethics and the Nonhuman World
On this episode of Free Range, Mike Livermore is joined by Emma Marris, an award-winning environmental writer and author of Wild Souls Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-human World. The book addresses some of the most complex questions in applied environmental ethics today and possesses two fundamental motivating ideas: the concept of nature and how we perceive non-human animals.
Episode is an appropriate teaching tool for but not limited to the following topics & courses: philosophy, animal ethics, policy, religion, ethics, the environment
Discussion Questions
- What is the importance of our definitions of nature?
- How does the human-animal relationship affect how we view animal suffering?
- Is suffering necessary in nature?
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