Why save endangered species without clear aesthetic economic or ecosystemic value? This book takes on this challenging question through an account of the intrinsic goods of species. Ian A. Smith argues that a speciesâ intrinsic value stems from its ability to flourishâits organisms continuing to reproduce successfully and it avoiding extinctionâwhich helps to demonstrate a further claim that humans ought to preserve species that we have endangered. He shows our need to exercise humility in our relations with endangered species through the preservation of their intrinsic goods which in turn rectifies our degradation of their importance. Unique in its appeal to virtue ethics and to species concepts The Intrinsic Value of Endangered Species is an important resource for scholars working in environmental ethics and the philosophy of biology. . Language: English