Introduction: Environmental Pragmatism and Environmental Ethics as Contested Terrain

2013 ◽  
pp. 16-33
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Contested Terrain ◽  
Environmental Pragmatism

Justificatory Moral Pluralism: A Novel Form of Environmental Pragmatism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andre Santos Campos ◽  
Sofia Guedes Vaz
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Traditional Method ◽  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Moral Pluralism ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
Environmental Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Decisions ◽  
Viable Solution ◽  
Environmental Pragmatism

Moral reasoning typically informs environmental decision-making by measuring the possible outcomes of policies or actions in light of a preferred ethical theory. This method is subject to many problems. Environmental pragmatism tries to overcome them, but it suffers also from some pitfalls. This paper proposes a new method of environmental pragmatism that avoids the problems of both the traditional method of environmental moral reasoning and of the general versions of environmental pragmatism. We call it ‘justificatory moral pluralism’ – it develops the intuition that normative ethical theories need not be mutually exclusive. This leaves room for important forms of pluralist environmental ethics that do not require a once-and-for-all prior commitment to an ethical theory when deciding about policies or courses of action related to the protection of the environment. Justificatory moral pluralism offers a viable solution to the recurrent conflicts between efficient environmental decisions and the need for moral reasoning.

scholarly journals A Problem for Environmental Pragmatism: Value Pluralism and the Sustainability Principle

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 286-310
Author(s):  
Okke Loman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Value Pluralism ◽  
American Pragmatism ◽  
Rational Discourse ◽  
Environmental Pragmatism ◽  
Sustainability Criterion

Abstract In this article, I suggest that the recently emerged perspective of environmental pragmatism encompasses self-contradicting principles. For many years, it was deemed impossible for environmental ethics to formulate justified environmental policy. Environmental pragmatism, and its primary scholar Bryan G. Norton, has promoted a new outlook in that debate by proposing an ideal methodology based upon classic American pragmatism. In this methodology, a community can determine what is morally righteous by (i) conducting open-ended inquiry and (ii) considering all relevant stakeholders in a rational discourse. Environmental pragmatism must therefore accommodate reasonable value pluralism. Moreover, Norton claims that these criteria should be complemented with what I call the ‘sustainability criterion’. However, this principle of righteous decision- making appears inconsistent with the two aforementioned commitments. This article considers why this is the case.

Ecological and ethical duty

1996 ◽  
pp. 16-26
Author(s):  
Dionisiy Lyahovych
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Ethical Duty ◽  
Environmental Value ◽  
The People

Ecological ethical duty is a kind of philosophical and theological reflection on environmental issues, and at the same time finding the appropriate foundation for environmental ethics. By the term "ethical duty" we mean the search for environmental value, the nature of which would have the effect of inducing the appropriate personal and social behavior and thus influenced the customs and culture of the people.

Effective instructional design for value dominant education in Malaysian public universities

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
MOHD NOR MAMAT ◽  
Fattawi Mokhtar
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Holistic Education ◽  
Environmental Attitude ◽  
National Education ◽  
Instructional Activities ◽  
Attitude Test ◽  
Ethics Course ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Document Review

Education is an important medium to ensure sustainability of human civilization. Holistic education must contain three main objectives to be achieved; cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains which involve knowledge transfer, skill enhancement and value or attitude inculcation. Our national education today regardless in primary, secondary or tertiary level seems to be more on producing graduates with knowledge and skill, but not much on value as major. This doesn't mean that value-education should be dominant in educational curriculum but it could be dominant within specific value dominant courses. Ethics or moral courses are among value-dominant courses that must prioritize value or attitude effects as main objectives. This needs different and specific instructional design (ID) in which value become major objectives in learning outcomes, activities, evaluation and etc. The study selected environmental ethics course as a case study. The study has recognized unique instructional activities for three different groups in UiTM A, UiTM B and UPSI (n=108). ID also includes learning objectives, learning object and content itself, other than instructional activities. All these have been identified using document review and interviews. The effects of environmental attitude (EA) have been measured using New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) which is endorsed by UNESCO and Behaviour-based Environmental Attitude Test by F J. Kaiser (2007) at the end of the semester to identify the effects of environmental paradigm and attitude. In this study, the result ofEA would be correlated with the different unique objectives, contents and activities to recognize the best ID for producing value effects, which is the environmental attitude. This led to few main findings as the best practices; religious elements, practical contents and environmental-related activities which have affected much on student's paradigm and attitude towards environment.

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