ABSTRACT
I have been defending a completely general thesis about being: that being as being is good (Augustine), or as the medievals put it, that the terms ‘being’ and ‘good’ are convertible. One consequence of this is that beings apart from human beings have intrinsic worth, and this is the consequence that goes against the grain of all post-medieval philosophy apart from recent ecophilosophy. It is therefore the part of my thesis that is likely to strike the reader most forcibly, leading to the misreading of my claim as one with relevance to one area of ethics only, environmental ethics.
