Title: Glossary
Course: HUM 299 Environmental Humanities > Section: HUM 299 Environmental Humanities

Glossary

Terms

Term | Definitions
Holism | An environmental philosophy championed by Aldo Leopold and others, holism emphasizes the relationships among human beings, other living creatures in our surrounding environment, and even natural s ...
Instrumental value | Refers to the value that something (or someone) has for something (or someone) else, that is, as instrumental in achieving some goal. So a pencil has instrumental value for writing; a bicycle has ...
Intrinsic value (inherent value) | Contrasted with instrumental value, intrinsic value (for our purposes, synonymous to inherent value) refers to something (or someone) being valuable intrinsically, that is, valuable for what it is ...
Systemic value | Something (or someone) can be instrumentally valuable for being useful for (other) people, and can be intrinsically valuable just because of the sort of person (or creature) they are; and thirdly, ...
Walking | As Thoreau characterizes it, walking is an undirected ambulatory activity through narture done with careful attention to one’s surrounding environment. On this philosophy, it is important that w ...