Pollution and Environment Essay - Man Must Dominate...

Man Must Dominate Nature and the Environment How shall we deal with the environment? is an ethical question much discussed, but rarely answered with any well-thought-out justifications. Rather, individuals attempting to answer it have often made claims stating that certain things are obvious. In this paper, I intend to analyze one of these ethical principles which is considered to be inherently obvious. For every culture has regarded certain things as obvious and needing no further explanation -- and every culture differs vastly on what it considers to be an obvious truth. Thus, it seems that these truths are not, in themselves, obvious. Rather, they require further scrutiny to determine their validity. Hence, in this†¦show more content†¦We must still eat, sleep, and eliminate waste. We also have the same drives; the base upon which our essential physical natures are built is not much different from the drives of a monkey, for instance, or a whale. Nietzsche described the nature of the drives and desires of a species in Beyond Good and Evil. He said, if it is a living and not a dying body ... it will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant -- not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power. (Good and Evil 259) If we, like other animals, have a life which simply is will to power, and that this will to power expresses itself through the desire to grow, to expand, and to dominate, then to stifle this with a claim of morality is to commit a slow species-wide suicide by refusing humanity the ability to participate in the expression of the will to power which life simply is. Other animals, which also have a will to power (as that is what life simply is), are most certainly not concerned with environmental ethics. 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