A BIOCENTRIST STRIKES BACK

Biocentrists are criticized (1) for being biased in favor of the human species, (2) for basing their view on an ecology that is now widely c hallenged, and (3) for failing to reasonably distinguish the life that they claim has intrinsic value from the animate and inanimate things that they claim lack intrinsic value. In this paper, I show how biocen trism can be defended against these three criticisms, thus permitting biocentrists to justifiably appropriate the salutation, ''Let the life force (or better the ethical demands of life) be with you.''.