What are the ethical challenges of conserving biodiversity and protecting endangered species?

Nov 25, 2020 ... What is the Naturalistic Fallacy? I remember being in the beginning of my anthropology journey and hearing this phrase all the time. This paper reviews several versions of the fallacy, and demonstrates that none of them present an obstacle to this updated, evolutionary version of Humean ... ... naturalism was simply a mistake. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, some moral philosophers began losing their fear of the naturalistic fallacy and ... This view I propose to call the “naturalistic fallacy.” ( Moore, 1978, p. 10). According to Moore, it is fallacious to define goodness in terms of natural ... Week Two (September 11th and 13th): The Naturalistic Fallacy. Required Readings: Moore, Principia Ethica, §§ 1-17. Frankena, “The Naturalistic Fallacy”. Week ... Apr 19, 2014 ... The naturalistic fallacy is to explain what is good in terms of something that is inherent or natural and has no moral/ethical quality. An ... Abstract. David Hume famously argued that we cannot logically move from sentences about how the world is, to sentences about how it ought to be. Doing so has ... Certain scholars wish to acquit St. Thomas Aquinas of the “illicit inference from facts to norms” commonly referred to as the naturalistic fallacy. Seeing in ... Assuming that something that is natural is “right” or “good” is referred to as “the naturalistic fallacy”. The naturalistic fallacy (NF) refers to "is-ought" confusions in which empirical descriptions of nature are seen as dictating moral conclusions.