Stanley Fish’s recent NY Times post suggests that our limited epistemic net prohibits us from sharing ethics with things that can’t communicate their agency, e.g., a tree’s desire to keep its fruit. Suspicious as it is with respect to a conception of ethics, it’s also an old concern. The Judicium Jovis, written around 1495, tackles this ecological question as well, but complicates the Christian response. Let’s call it a Tuesday old-meets-new juxtaposition.

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