Being and worth - Andrew Collier

Being and Worth extends recent depth-realist philosophy
to the question of values. It argues that beings both in the
natural and human worlds have worth in themselves, whether
we recognise it or not. This view is defended through and account of the human mind as essentially concerned with that
of which it is independent.
Conclusions follow both for environmental ethics - that
natural beings should be valued for themselves, not just for
their use to us - and for justice in the human world, based
on the idea that humans are unique and equal in respect of
'having a life to live'.