| Abstrakt: |
During the last few decades, there have emerged organizations, as well as theorists, that demand our respect for and acknowledgement of animal rights. The comprehensive meaning of such a claim is virtually a demand to extend the boundaries of morality, its range of applicability and its validity, beyond human beings alone. This Article intends to continue this tendency and suggests another breakthrough in mankind's moral attitude, this time towards silent nature. I argue that in the same manner that we make non-anthropocentric moral considerations with regard to animals as living creatures, we should expand our concern toward silent nature, too. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
