ANTHROPOCENTRIC BIOCENTRISM IN A HYBRID

摘要

Anthropocentric biocentrism (AB) says that human beings ought to promote the survival of our own species above the survival of other species. But those who attack AB sometimes take it to say something much stronger: we ought to promote our species' various desires, interests, and goals. I call the latter view AB+. I argue that AB and the position contradicting AB+, namely, anti-AB+, are not only mutually compatible but also, in some respects, mutually complementary, such that there are good prospects for combining them into a hybrid-view. After all, we know that the survival of our species is deeply connected to the well being of the environment. So placing reasonable quantitative and qualitative limits on how many of our species' various desires, interests, and goals we promote, especially when the well being of the environment is compromised without such limits, is very likely to promote our species' continued survival.