Environmental Virtue Ethics

Bibliographic Data

ID8076549
AuthorsRonald Sandler (0000-0002-0677-4715, corresponding author)
EditorsStephen M Gardiner (0000-0001-7813-6133), Allen Thompson
Year2016
Pages608
Publication date2016-01-19
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueOxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199941339.013.20
OpenAlexW4238960563
Open LibraryOL28613088M
ISBN9780199941339
LanguageEN
Citations received9

It is uncontroversial that character ethics are indispensible to environmental ethics. What is contested is whether virtue ethics, understood as a distinctive type of normative theory, could provide a viable environmental ethic. In response to this concern, this chapter (1) explicates what is distinctive about a virtue ethics approach to normativity within environmental ethics—that is, that how things matter (moral status) is explicated through the virtues; (2) demonstrates that a virtue ethics normative framework can accommodate whatever is the correct account of the value of nonhuman nature; (3) argues that a pluralistic approach to moral status, such as virtue ethics’, is indispensible to environmental ethics; (4) articulates a plausible virtue ethics principle of right action and decision making. Virtue ethics should be regarded as a viable approach to environmental ethics, and it should be considered alongside other, more familiar, approaches such as deontology and consequentialism

Applied ethics · Consequentialism · Deontological ethics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Information ethics · Intrinsic value (animal ethics · Meta-ethics · Normative · Normative ethics · Nursing ethics · Political science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Virtue · Virtue ethics · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Computer Science · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Environmental protection · Moral and ethical aspects · Nature · Law · Philosophy

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