Universalising environmental ethics is ethnocentric, not a mark of human progress

Evidence

This account of respect for nature in terms of ‘moral progress’ is also remarkable for its ethnocentrism, since it treats as a feature of ‘human progress’ what is in fact a change in the outlook of western liberalism, many other cultures having held such views from time immemorial. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 641

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the teleological ‘moral progress’ narrative - ties to eco-justice critique of settler-colonial framing and to chapter 23’s account of indigenous identity/relation to land. — connects to: Western environmentalism’s nonhuman focus relegates the global poor to moral depravity — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 482; Environmental movements’ focus on the nonhuman can marginalize the global poor; Ethnophilosophy persists as a challenge to Western philosophy’s universalist pretensions — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 487 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Environmental movements’ focus on the nonhuman can marginalize the global poor #corroborates (0.88)
• Western environmentalism’s nonhuman focus relegates the global poor to moral depravity #corroborates (0.85) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 482
• Ethnophilosophy persists as a challenge to Western philosophy’s universalist pretensions #corroborates (0.82) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 487