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1. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 28 > Issue: 4
NEWS AND NOTES
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2. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 28 > Issue: 4
Simon P. James Human Virtues and Natural Values
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In several works, Holmes Rolston, III has argued that a satisfactory environmental ethic cannot be built on a virtue ethical foundation. His first argument amounts to the charge that because virtue ethics is by nature “self-centered” or egoistic, it is also inherently “human-centered” and hence ill suited to treating environmental matters. According to his second argument, virtue ethics is perniciously human-centeredsince it “locates” the value of a thing, not in the thing itself, but in the agent who is “ennobled” by valuing it. These charges, though illuminating, are not in the final analysis compelling. The first misconceives the role of motivation in virtue ethics, while the second ultimately rests on a misunderstanding of the place of the human perspective in ethical considerations.
3. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 28 > Issue: 4
John Nolt The Move from Good to Ought in Environmental Ethics
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The move from good to ought, a premise form found in many justifications of environmental ethics, is itself in need of justification. Of the potential moves from good to ought surveyed, some have considerable promise and others less or none. Those without much promise include extrapolations of obligations based on human goods to nonsentient natural entities, appeals to educated judgment, precautionary arguments, humanistic consequentialist arguments, and justifications that assert that our obligations to natural entities are neither directly to those entities nor derived from our obligations to humans. Some arguments that extrapolate obligations based on goods involving sentience from humans to sentient animals are promising, but whether they are sufficient is controversial. Gandhian andAristotlian arguments are also promising, provided we can justify their ought premises.
discussion papers
4. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 28 > Issue: 4
Anna L. Peterson Toward a Materialist Environmental Ethic
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Environmental ethics has been dominated by an idealist logic that limits its positive impact on the natural world about which environmental philosophers care deeply. Environmental ethicists need to alter the ways we think and talk about what we value and the relations among ideas, values, and actions. Drawing on the sociology of religion and Marxian philosophy among other sources, a new approach may increase our understanding of how ideas are lived out and how we might increase the impact of our ideas about the value of nature.
5. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 28 > Issue: 4
Darren Domsky The Inadequacy of Callicott’s Ecological Communitarianism
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J. Baird Callicott defends a communitarian environmental ethic that grounds moral standing in shared kinship and community. This normative theory is unacceptable because it is out of synch with our considered moral judgments as environmental philosophers. Ecological communitarianism excludes in advance entities that would obviously qualify for moral standing, and scuttles itself in the process.
6. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 28 > Issue: 4
Ian Mills Dwelling in No-Place: Our Ethical Between
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Suggestions made by Luce Irigaray in her book, An Ethics of Sexual Difference, may offer a solution to a problem in environmental ethics which has much in common with the gender problem: the tendency of the masculine to exploit the Other as “a-place-to-be-in.” If humans are to achieve the ethicality of mutually beneficial, sustainable relating with all beings, we need to initiate an economy of desire which has regard to a reciprocity of receptivity-activity, as a way of safeguarding a clear space open to the kind of relating that makes possible a “permanent becoming” together of all beings. We need to live in a psychic No-Place, to experience our environment as the potentially infinite “Open” of “our-between.”
book reviews
7. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 28 > Issue: 4
Environmental Virtue Ethics
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Elizabeth Mauritz The Sunflower Forest: Ecological Restoration and the New Communion with Nature
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Philip Cafaro The Pine Island Paradox
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Albert Cinelli Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice
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Joyce M. Barry Nature’s Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism
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referees
12. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 28 > Issue: 4
REFEREES 2006
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13. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 28 > Issue: 4
INDEX FOR 2006
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