Environmental Ethics & Political Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6355908 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bob Pepperman Taylor (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 567-583 |
| Publication date | 1991-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3235063 |
| OpenAlex | W2317505510 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
This article argues that there are three tendencies in much of contemporary environmental ethics: the reduction of ethical questions to issues of personal consciousness, the almost opposite tendency of extending social and political categories inappropriately to the non-human world, and the view that the fundamental battle is between biocentrism and anthropocentrism. All of these, the author insists, have the effect of deflecting attention from fundamental political issues that originally inspired environmental ethics as a discipline, and he urges that the focus return more to issues in political theory
Anthropocentrism · Consciousness · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Political ethics · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1995 - 2010 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |