Duties Regarding Nature: A Kantian Environmental Ethic

ISBN-13: 9780367258405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 172 str.

Toby Svoboda

Opis

This book defends a Kantian environmental virtue ethic, challenging the view that Kant's moral philosophy has little to offer environmental ethics. Svoboda contends that on Kantian grounds, there is good moral reason to care about non-human organisms in their own right and to value their flourishing independently of human interests.

Spis treści

Introduction: Kant and Environmental Ethics  1. Standard Approaches to Environmental Ethics  2. Kantian Approaches to Animal Ethics and Environmental Ethics  3. Indirect Duties, Moral Perfection, and Virtuous Dispositions  4. Teleology and Non-Human Flourishing  5. A Kantian Environmental Virtue Ethic  6. Advantages of the Kantian Environmental Virtue Ethic

O autorze

Toby Svoboda is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University, USA. His work on animal and environmental ethics has been published in Environmental Values, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, and Ethics, Policy & Environment, among other journals.