ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY AS A SYSTEM: FROM ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS TO ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY

2014 ◽  
pp. 385-389
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Environmental Philosophy

scholarly journals The Ugency of the Greening of Ethics

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 592
Author(s):  
Anna Malavisi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Effective Practice ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Environmental Situation ◽  
Salient Features

Richard Sylvan, a vanguard in the field of environmental philosophy published a book in 1994 with David Bennett titled The Greening of Ethics. Nearly twenty-five years later, where the environmental situation of our world is even more serious, and where some governments deny the existence and negative effects of human caused climate change, the greening of ethics is even more urgent. In this paper, I revisit Sylvan’s and Bennett’s work arguing that their approach to environmental ethics should be one that is advocated. I consider the most salient features of their approach, how this translates into practice but also offer an analysis as to why some governments have reached an impasse in regard to implementing environmental policies, and why environmental ethics still remains on the margins. In the final section of this paper, I discuss what an effective practice would mean.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Fritsch ◽  
Philippe Lynes ◽  
David Wood
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Hans Jonas

This chapter serves to introduce the reader to eco-deconstruction and the relevance of Derrida’s thought to environmental philosophy more broadly. After situating eco-deconstruction with respect to environmentally-concerned readings of other continental philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, Hans Jonas, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, the editors guide the reader’s navigation through the at times perplexing multiplication of related fields, including eco-criticism, eco-phenomenology, posthumanism, new materialism, and more. These examinations are followed by descriptions of the four sections of the book, “diagnosing the present,” “ecologies,” “nuclear and other biodegradabilities,” and “environmental ethics.”

The Construction of India in Some Recent Environmental Philosophy

1998 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-20
Author(s):  
George Alfred James
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Significant Feature ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Western Discourse ◽  
Indian Thought

AbstractI argue that from its beginning environmental philosophy has held two contrasting views of Eastern thought and of Indian philosophical and religious ideas in particular. Utilising the insights of Edward Said and others I find that these contrasting images are reflective of a duality according to which India has been constituted in Western discourse. I argue that these Western images of India remain a significant feature of writing concerning environmental ethics to the present time. As it appears in some recent scholarship in environmental ethics, this discourse remains an obstacle to an informed appreciation of the significance of Indian thought and of Asian thought more generally for environmental philosophy.

From South to North and Vice Versa

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-289
Author(s):  
Alicia Irene Bugallo Finnemann
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Academic Interest ◽  
Special Mention

This article focuses on different aspects of the reception and development of Deep Ecology in Argentina, with special mention to its presence in some expressions of the counterculture in the 1980s. A local academic interest on environmental ethics and deep ecology is also referred, considering diverse publications and degree theses of Argentine philosophers. The article further highlights some Naessian spirit in philosopher’s training, especially when it is linked to field environmental philosophy and experimental environmental philosophy study cases. Finally, attention is focused on the contributions of Naess’ deep-ecological hermeneutical thought as his great legacy for today, when facing the dawn of the Anthropocene.

THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MODEL

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volobymyr Hobela ◽  
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Nataliya Blaga ◽  
Halyna Leskiv ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Environmental Economics ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
The State ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Ecological Ethics ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
Ecological Worldview

The research was devoted to the actual problem of forming the concept of ecologically safe social development, which substantiates the relevance of this problem because of the state of the economy and the current environmental issues. The theoretical analysis of the main provisions and directions of ecological ethics is carried out, their influence on consciousness and behavior of the person in ecological and economic systems is analyzed. The relationship and interaction of environmental ethics, social ecology, environmental philosophy, and environmental economics were considered. The most acceptable provisions of environmental ethics are highlighted, taking into account modern realities and their impact on the ecological and economic system and social development. Theoretical bases and basic approaches to ensuring ecologically friendly development were investigated; their structuring and analysis were conducted. The basic concepts of social development transformation into ecologically friendly were considered and their theoretical analysis was carried out, the basic advantages and lacks the specified concepts taking into account a current state of economy and environmental issues were allocated. Taking into account empirical researches and results of a comparison of the main provisions was concluded the necessity of introducing the basic provisions of the concept of degrowth for the state economic and ecological safety maintenance. Detailed analysis and characterization of the key provisions of the degrowth concept. The theoretical basis of this concept was analyzed; its main goals and objectives were formed. Based on the results of the analysis, a theoretical model of ecologically friendly development of the state’s economy was developed, which provides for the development of a certain direction of environmental ethics, formation of the most acceptable ecological worldview, based on the concept of degrowth and provides intensive greening of all spheres of human activity.

The Oppression of Nonhuman Life

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-214
Author(s):  
Lisa Kretz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Group Members

Karen Warren’s work has helped to transform the landscape of environmental philosophy, contributing theoretical grounding for Western ecofeminism and opening the range of theoretical perspectives one can adopt when doing Western environmental ethics. Although her work is laudable, there are substantive worries about how potential subjects of oppression are characterized in her later work. Warren’s work and relevant secondary literature can be used as a foil to illuminate inadequate justification for the failure to include all living entities as potential subjects of the harm of oppression. The failure to provide conceptual room to include all entities that can rightfully be the potential subjects of oppression limits our understanding of oppression and the multiple ways in which it functions. Additionally, failure to attend to all potential subjects of oppression limits practical opportunities for anti-oppressive solidarity in political action. If oppression is correctly described as the harm of particular group members by others, and the class of living entities can be subjected to harm, then nonhuman living entities can potentially be subjects of oppression. The aim here is to provide conceptual support for the possibility that nonhuman life can be oppressed.

scholarly journals Implications of Some Selected Ethical Theories for Environmental Sustainability and Development in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 150
Author(s):  
Ephraim Ahamefula Ikegbu ◽  
Maduka Enyimba
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Study ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
Negative Implication ◽  
The Right

Human actions and conduct have both positive and negative effects on humankind and its environment. This is why ethicists have propounded different theories that are supposed to guide peoples’ conduct in order to distinguish the right from the wrong. Environmental ethics as an aspect of environmental philosophy attempts a justification of the rightness and wrongness of human activities as they affect other non-human members of the society or environment. Despite the efforts of both ethicists and environmentalist, humans have continued to conduct themselves in a manner, most unhealthy to the environmental resources. This is the problematic that informed this research on “Ethics, Environment and Philosophy:  Towards Sustainable Development in Africa”. The main objective is to apply selected ethical theories to the philosophical study of environment in order to ascertain their implications for sustainable development in Africa. To achieve this goal, philosophical methods of critical analysis, conceptual clarification and deduction were employed in the examination and exposition of the nature and tenets of the following selected ethical theories: Platonism, Hedonism, Subjectivism, Teleologism and Deontologism. It was discovered upon application that, these theories present both positive and negative implication for environment, philosophy and development. Hence, humans must be positively minded whenever they undertake any action be it from the perspective of Platonists, Hedonists, Subjectivists, Teleologists or Deontologists. If there must be development and sustainability in the environment, then the positive aspects of each of these theories must be harnessed to yield what this paper describes as environmental eclecticism. Keywords: Ethical Theories, Environment, Philosophy, Sustainable Development, Environmental Eclecticism.

scholarly journals Co dekonstrukcja może zaproponowaćetyce środowiskowej?

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 111-122
Author(s):  
Mateusz Schuler ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Peter Singer ◽  
Aldo Leopold ◽  
Hans Jonas

This article presents a deconstructionist perspective on the environmental eth-ics. This model realizes a multi-criterial approach to normativity in the environ-mental ethics. The fi rst part of this study is devoted to the most important con-cepts of environmental philosophy, as represented by Peter Singer, Hans Jonas, Holmest Rolston and Aldo Leopold. In the second part, I show that the philos-ophy of Jacques Derrida contains an interesting vision of environmental ethics,

Management and Valorization of Cultural Heritage in the Framework of Environmental Ethics

2019 ◽  
pp. 110-128
Author(s):  
António dos Santos Queirós
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
General Definition ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Heritage Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
Scientific Objects ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Disciplinary Matrix

Fundamental conceptual terms, such as ‘culture' and ‘heritage,' are far from being neutral scientific objects. They are academic constructions which need to be understood as they emerge across their historic contexts. The general definition of paradigm comprises a “disciplinary matrix,” a constellation of beliefs, values, and techniques shared by a community. The presence of some anomalies is not enough to abandon the previous paradigm. This only happens when, you can observe multiple unexplained or unexpected events, and when a rival paradigm emerges. The Environmental Philosophy allowed the construction of a new ontology as a critique of anthropocentrism, a new epistemology as a critique of ethnocentrism, and a new ethical theory, with a universal value and practical content applicable to all the social fields. This chapter discusses the relevance of environmental philosophy in changing the social viewing of heritage and the correlation between heritage education, and heritage, and the new paradigm of tourism, environmental tourism.

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