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Agrarian Philosophy and Ecological Ethics
Science and Engineering Ethics, 2008Mainstream environmental ethics grew out of an approach to value that was rooted in a particular conception of rationality and rational choice. As weaknesses in this approach have become more evident, environmental philosophers have experimented with both virtue ethics and with pragmatism as alternative starting points for developing a more truly ...
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Utilitarianism and the Evolution of Ecological Ethics
Science and Engineering Ethics, 2008R.M. Hare's two-level utilitarianism provides a useful framework for understanding the evolution of codes of professional ethics. From a Harean perspective, the codes reflect both the fact that members of various professions face special kinds of ethically charged situations in the normal course of their work, and the need for people in special roles ...
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Ethics Naturalized: Ethics as Human Ecology
1996Abstract In “Epistemology Naturalized,” Quine suggested that epistemology be assimilated to psychology. The trouble with this idea is apparent. Psychology is not in general concerned with norms of rational belief, but with the description and explanation of mental performance and mentally mediated performance and capacities.
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2021
The topic of this chapter is how Ethics and Earth Ecology relate to each other. Given the dynamics of the Earth’s ecological system, ethics takes the meaning of an emergent layer of quality control on human’s actions in the organic global Earth environment.
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The topic of this chapter is how Ethics and Earth Ecology relate to each other. Given the dynamics of the Earth’s ecological system, ethics takes the meaning of an emergent layer of quality control on human’s actions in the organic global Earth environment.
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2014
Let us now step back from the biologic for a moment and draw out some of the ethical implications alluded to in the previous chapter. In this chapter we will see that Hegel’s account of life in the Science of Logic, when taken in conjunction with the properly normative account of human freedom provided in the Philosophy of Right, provides ontological ...
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Let us now step back from the biologic for a moment and draw out some of the ethical implications alluded to in the previous chapter. In this chapter we will see that Hegel’s account of life in the Science of Logic, when taken in conjunction with the properly normative account of human freedom provided in the Philosophy of Right, provides ontological ...
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2023
Journal of Ethics in Antiquity and Christianity, Bd. 5 Nr.
Meyer Zu Hörste-Bührer, Raphaela J. +5 more
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Journal of Ethics in Antiquity and Christianity, Bd. 5 Nr.
Meyer Zu Hörste-Bührer, Raphaela J. +5 more
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Literary Ecology and the Ethics of Texts
New Literary History, 2008Among the various “turns” in recent literary and cultural studies, the ecological turn and the ethical turn are perhaps the most conspicuous. They have both opened up promising new areas of transdisciplinary inquiry and are, in many ways, at the heart of current trends in the humanities.
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2019
Ethics concerns how one ought to live one’s life. The aim of an ethics of ecology is to help us avoid disturbing the ecological integrity, stability and beauty of nature. This is in turn a necessary condition for bringing about ecological justice, understood as comprised of justice to both human and nonhuman organisms and systems.
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Ethics concerns how one ought to live one’s life. The aim of an ethics of ecology is to help us avoid disturbing the ecological integrity, stability and beauty of nature. This is in turn a necessary condition for bringing about ecological justice, understood as comprised of justice to both human and nonhuman organisms and systems.
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Beyond Positivist Ecology: Toward an Integrated Ecological Ethics
Science and Engineering Ethics, 2008A post-positivist understanding of ecological science and the call for an "ecological ethic" indicate the need for a radically new approach to evaluating environmental change. The positivist view of science cannot capture the essence of environmental sciences because the recent work of "reflexive" ecological modelers shows that this requires a ...
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