Character and environment : a virtue-oriented approach to environmental ethics

Ronald L. Sandler

Virtue ethics is now widely recognized as an alternative to Kantian and consequentialist ethical theories. However, moral philosophers have been slow to bring virtue ethics to bear on topics in applied ethics. Moreover, environmental virtue ethics is an underdeveloped area of environmental ethics. Although environmental ethicists often employ virtue-oriented evaluation (such as respect, care, and love for nature) and appeal to role models (such as Henry Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson) for guidance, environmental ethics has not been well informed by contemporary work on virtue ethics. With Character and Environment, Ronald Sandler remedies each of these deficiencies by bringing together contemporary work on virtue ethics with contemporary work on environmental ethics. He demonstrates the many ways that any ethic of character can and should be informed by environmental considerations. He also develops a pluralistic virtue-oriented environmental ethic that accommodates the richness and complexity of our relationship with the natural environment and provides effective and nuanced guidance on environmental issues. These projects have implications not only for environmental ethics and virtue ethics but also for moral philosophy more broadly. Ethical theories must be assessed on their theoretical and practical adequacy with respect to all aspects of the human ethical situation: personal, interpersonal, and environmental. To the extent that virtue-oriented ethical theory in general, and Sandler's version of it in particular, provides a superior environmental ethic to other ethical theories, it is to be preferred not just as an environmental ethic but also as an ethical theory. Character and Environment will engage any reader with an interest in environmental ethics, virtue ethics, or moral philosophy.

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Virtue ethics is now widely recognized as an alternative to Kantian and consequentialist ethical theories. However, moral philosophers have been slow to bring virtue ethics to bear on topics in applied ethics. Moreover, environmental virtue ethics is an underdeveloped area of environmental ethics. Although environmental ethicists often employ virtue-oriented evaluation (such as respect, care, and love for nature) and appeal to role models (such as Henry Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson) for guidance, environmental ethics has not been well informed by contemporary work on virtue ethics. With Character and Environment, Ronald Sandler remedies each of these deficiencies by bringing together contemporary work on virtue ethics with contemporary work on environmental ethics. He demonstrates the many ways that any ethic of character can and should be informed by environmental considerations. He also develops a pluralistic virtue-oriented environmental ethic that accommodates the richness and complexity of our relationship with the natural environment and provides effective and nuanced guidance on environmental issues. These projects have implications not only for environmental ethics and virtue ethics but also for moral philosophy more broadly. Ethical theories must be assessed on their theoretical and practical adequacy with respect to all aspects of the human ethical situation: personal, interpersonal, and environmental. To the extent that virtue-oriented ethical theory in general, and Sandler's version of it in particular, provides a superior environmental ethic to other ethical theories, it is to be preferred not just as an environmental ethic but also as an ethical theory. Character and Environment will engage any reader with an interest in environmental ethics, virtue ethics, or moral philosophy.

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[目次]

  • PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Virtue-Oriented Alternative?What Makes a Character Trait a Virtue?The Environment and Human FlourishingThe Environment ItselfEnvironmental Decision MakingThe Virtue-Oriented Approach and Environmental EthicsA Virtue-Oriented Assessment of Genetically Modified CropsConclusion: A Virtue-Oriented AlternativeNotesBibliographyIndex

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  • PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Virtue-Oriented Alternative?What Makes a Character Trait a Virtue?The Environment and Human FlourishingThe Environment ItselfEnvironmental Decision MakingThe Virtue-Oriented Approach and Environmental EthicsA Virtue-Oriented Assessment of Genetically Modified CropsConclusion: A Virtue-Oriented AlternativeNotesBibliographyIndex

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書名 Character and environment : a virtue-oriented approach to environmental ethics
著作者等 Sandler, Ronald L.
出版元 Columbia University Press
刊行年月 c2007
ページ数 xii, 201 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 9780231141079
9780231141062
NCID BA88832293
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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