{"title":"Locke Was Right: Nature Has Little Economic Value","authors":"M. Sagoff","doi":"10.13021/G8PPPQ.252005.179","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Locke understood that since God created Nature, humanity has a moral and spiritual obligation to respect and preserve it. Locke was right to argue, however, that from the perspective of economic value, Nature furnishes only \"worthless materials.\"","PeriodicalId":82464,"journal":{"name":"Report from the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy","volume":"25 1","pages":"2-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2005-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Report from the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.13021/G8PPPQ.252005.179","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Locke understood that since God created Nature, humanity has a moral and spiritual obligation to respect and preserve it. Locke was right to argue, however, that from the perspective of economic value, Nature furnishes only "worthless materials."