Environmental Virtue Ethics

There is one certainty regarding the human relationship with nature-there is no getting away from it. But while a relationship with nature is a given, the nature of that relationship is not. Environmental ethics is the attempt to determine how we ought and ought not relate to the natural environment.

Acknowledgments

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Introduction: Environmental Virtue Ethics

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Ronald Sandler

PART 1: RECOGNIZING ENVIRONMENTAL VIRTUE ETHICS

The Emergence of Ecological Virtue Language

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Louke van Wensveen

Thoreau, Leopold, and Carson: Toward an Environmental Virtue Ethics

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Philip Cafaro

PART 2: ENVIRONMENTAL VIRTUE ETHICS THEORY

Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments

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Thomas Hill Jr.

Environmental Virtue Ethics: Half the Truth but Dangerous as a Whole

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Holmes Rolston III

Virtue Ethics as Foundational for a Global Ethic

79

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Laura Westra

A Virtue Ethics Approach to Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic

93

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Bill Shaw

Virtue Ethics and Repugnant Conclusions

107

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David Schmidtz

Matt Zwolinski

PART 3: ENVIRONMENTAL VIRTUES AND VICES

Benevolence as an Environmental Virtue

121

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Geoffrey Frasz

Gluttony, Arrogance, Greed, and Apathy: An Exploration of Environmental Vice

135

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Philip Cafaro

Vices and Virtues in Religious Environmental Ethics

159

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Charles Taliaferro

Cardinal Environmental Virtues: A Neurobiological Perspective

173

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Louke van Wensveen

PART 4: APPLYING ENVIRONMENTAL VIRTUE ETHICS

Synergistic Environmental Virtues: Consumerism and Human Flourishing

197

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Peter Wenz

A Virtue Ethics Perspective on Genetically Modified Crops

215

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Ronald Sandler

Contributors

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Index

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