Fair point on value not entirely being a human construct. Truth is objective, value is relative to an individual or group, but it doesn't have to be human.
Fair point on value not entirely being a human construct. Truth is objective, value is relative to an individual or group, but it doesn't have to be human.
This distinction is important because otherwise any person can form his own value set, change them at will, and assert his right to those values, including permitting plainly objective values like those that forbid murder and theft. If we were to say that abhorrence to the likes of theft and the murder of the innocent are human constructs, I would hate to think what the world would look like...
To bring it back to the article in question, our attitudes toward Nature and everything else cannot be based on a human-constructed value system.
Fair point on value not entirely being a human construct. Truth is objective, value is relative to an individual or group, but it doesn't have to be human.
This distinction is important because otherwise any person can form his own value set, change them at will, and assert his right to those values, including permitting plainly objective values like those that forbid murder and theft. If we were to say that abhorrence to the likes of theft and the murder of the innocent are human constructs, I would hate to think what the world would look like...
To bring it back to the article in question, our attitudes toward Nature and everything else cannot be based on a human-constructed value system.
Sorry mate, you've lost me there - your logic is unclear to me