Duties Regarding Nature A Kantian Environmental Ethic Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory Series
Auteur : Svoboda Toby
In this book, Toby Svoboda develops and defends a Kantian environmental virtue ethic, challenging the widely-held view that Kant's moral philosophy has little to offer environmental ethics. On the contrary, Svoboda contends that on Kantian grounds, there is good moral reason to care about non-human organisms in their own right and to value their flourishing independently of human interests, since doing so is constitutive of certain (environmental) virtues. Svoboda argues that Kant?s account of indirect duties regarding nature can ground a compelling environmental ethic: the Kantian duty to develop morally virtuous dispositions strictly proscribes unnecessarily harming organisms, and it also gives us moral reason to act in ways that benefit such organisms. Svoboda?s account engages the recent literature on environmental virtue (including Rosalind Hursthouse, Philip Cafaro, Ronald Sandler, Thomas Hill, and Louke van Wensveen) and provides an original argument for an environmental ethic firmly rooted in Kant?s moral philosophy.
Introduction: Kant and Environmental Ethics 1. Standard Approaches to Environmental Ethics 2. Kantian Approaches to Animal Ethics and Environmental Ethics 3. Indirect Duties, Moral Perfection, and Virtuous Dispositions 4. Teleology and Non-Human Flourishing 5. A Kantian Environmental Virtue Ethic 6. Advantages of the Kantian Environmental Virtue Ethic
Toby Svoboda is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University, USA. His work on animal and environmental ethics has been published in Environmental Values, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, and Ethics, Policy & Environment, among other journals.
Date de parution : 03-2019
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 09-2015
15.2x22.9 cm
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Mots-clés :
Kant; environmental ethics; environmental virtue; moral virtues; direct duties; indirect duties; duties regarding nature; duties regarding animals; Critique of Judgment; flourishing; teleology; teleological; moral perfection; Rosalind Hursthouse; Philip Cafaro; Ronald Sandler; Thomas Hill; Louke van Wensveen; Christine Korsgaard; Non-human Natural Entities; Objective List Theory; Non-human Flourishing; Nonhuman Nature; Environmental Virtue Ethic; Imperfect Duty; Non-human Nature; Non-human Organisms; Perfect Duties; Nonhuman Organisms; Natural Beauty; Environmental Ethic; Non-sentient Nature; Human Moral Agent; Teleological Judgment; Beautiful Natural Objects; Animal Cruelty; Genuine Virtue; Teleological Accounts; Non-human Entities; Non-anthropocentric Positions