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Political Deliberations also include the interpretation of
needs and wants
Political Deliberations also include the interpretation of needs and wants and the change of
pre-political attitudes and preferences”
Total consensual agreement on the good is almost impossible to
realize
A shared we perspective is a community’s shared horizon of understanding that is born from the free and fair engagement of persons who bear different frames for understanding the
good
If people take part in a set up where (blank) is allowed, they will be engaged in a process of mutual justification
free discourse of rationalities
is founded on mutual justification, a means to which people can settle differing viewpoints.
Creative dialogue
The participants in creative discourse may begin to understand that not all conceptions of the good are (blank) to all people.
acceptable
of land are very different from each people group.
valuations
The indigenous people view their land as a (blank) territory of their tribe and they are stewards of their land.
shared
One who comes from the dominant economic system views the ancestral lands of the indigenous people as something to(blank) in order to expand the exploitable resource base.
acquire
Now to answer these questions, it is essential that people must have a shared understanding of what it means to own land and have a right to it. It can only be possible through a process of
mutual justification and clarification.
refers to changes in Earth’s climate caused or influenced by human activity.
· Anthropogenic Climate Change
Severe weather and natural disasters are increasing in frequency and intensity because of the changing
climate
. As just one example, record-setting wildfires were experienced in recent years in both the
United States and Australia.
Before environmental ethics emerged as an academic discipline in the 1970s, some people were already questioning and rethinking our relationship to the
natural world
called upon humanity to expand our idea of community to include the entire natural world, grounding this approach in the belief that all of nature is connected and interdependent in important ways.
Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, published in
1949
drew attention to the dangers of what were then commonly used commercial pesticides.
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
Carson’s essays drew attention to the farreaching impacts of human activity and its potential to cause significant harm to the (blank) and to humanity in turn.
environment
These early works inspired the environmentalist movement and sparked debates about how to deal with emerging
environmental challenges
