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Persons, Rights, and Values

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doi:10.4324/9781003740186-4
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Eric M. Rubenstein
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2026
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Chapter 3 continues the critique of Realist accounts of personhood as they are wielded in support of RoN. This chapter focuses on attempts to secure legal rights and personhood of nature via moral or value (axiological) considerations, in particular, the view that nature has intrinsic value. The concept of intrinsic value is explored at length and argued to be unhelpful, at best. Whether or not it is a viable notion in general, it is argued that it is unsuitable as a premise in arguing that nature is deserving of rights of its own. For while it is possible that biological entities, such as individual animals, might be seen as intrinsically valuable, there is little in the makeup of non-biological entities, such as glaciers, to warrant calling them intrinsically valuable. Given the apparent failure to secure a Realist foundation for the rights and personhood of nature on either of these grounds or ones from the previous chapter, it is argued that an alternative is worth exploring. This is the Legalist view developed in subsequent chapters.

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