A Post-environmental Ethics

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ID12596221
AutoresN Castree (0000-0002-0282-5319, Institute of Geography of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume6
Fascículo1
Páginas3-12
Data de publicação2003-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthics Place & Environment (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1366-879X • E-ISSN: 1469-6703
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13668790303542
OpenAlexW2037088285
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas20
Referências citadas20

This essay offers a critique of environmental ethics and argues that a post-environmental ethics may be unavoidable. It does so by exposing and questioning the ontological assumptions common to otherwise different modalities of environmental ethics. These modalities, it is argued, rest upon an implicit or explicit 'material essentialism'. Such essentialism entails the belief that putatively 'environmental' entities have discrete and relatively enduring properties. These properties 'anchor' ethical claims and permit the objects of ethical considerability to be named. Against this, it is argued that a non-essentialist ontology is preferable. This ontology presumes neither that environmental phenomena are simply environmental nor that their properties can be 'fixed' under some determinate description. Drawing on recent 'hybrid' research in human geography and elsewhere, it is suggested that the motility and mutability of ostensibly environmental entities be recognised. This recognition, I conclude, destabilises conventional environmental ethics and calls for a more supple mode of ethical reasoning

Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Essentialism · Information ethics · Meta-ethics · Modalities · Modality (human–computer interaction · Ontology · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Artificial Intelligence