Anthropocentrism and Biocentrism in Human Attitudes toward Some Selected Dilemmas of Environmental Ethics – Case of Kuyavian and Pomeranian Province Citizens
Anthropocentrism and Biocentrism in Human Attitudes toward Some Selected Dilemmas of Environmental Ethics – Case of Kuyavian and Pomeranian Province Citizens

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the results of own research concerningattitudes toward the four selected dilemmas of environmental ethics. Theempirical data was collected by means of a questionnaire in 2014 and2015 on a representative sample of 1000 inhabitants of the Kuyavian andPomeranian province. The respondents were asked to address 16 statementsthat related to some of the issues of environmental ethics including:value of human life in the face of the threat of overpopulation andan ensuing need to reduce the population, validity of human interestsin view of nature’s needs, priorities in environmental protection, as wellas the principle of redress that specifies the extent of compensation ofhuman induced damage to the environment. Each of the mentionedproblems was presented for assessment in the form of four statements adapted in axiological terms to the division accepted in environmentalethics into anthropocentric and biocentric positions.

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