All About Eve: A Report on Environmental Virtue Ethics Today

Ethics and the Environment 10 (1):89-110 (2005)
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In this paper I examine and assess an important developing trend in environmental ethics, environmental virtue ethics. I begin by providing a thorough survey of influential and representative contributions to environmental virtue ethics. Along with explaining these contributions to environmental virtue ethics I discuss their various strengths and weaknesses. In the second section I explain what I believe an environmental virtue ethic needs to do to complement other perspectives in environmental ethics. Then, using the best aspects of previously published work along with some additional argument and analysis, I provide a concise portrait of an environmental virtue ethic that combines the advantages of Aristotelian virtue theory with the insights of contemporary environmental ethics. The environmental virtue ethic that emerges from this analysis and discussion is primarily a philosophical praxis. It provides a model of living well in which an understanding of and a concern for the environment human is constitutive of human flourishing. As a praxis this environmental virtue ethic articulates an account of human flourishing with a view to suggesting how a person can improve her own life by working to preserve wild nature.

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Thoreau, Leopold, and Carson.Philip Cafaro - 2001 - Environmental Ethics 23 (1):3-17.
Environmental Virtue Ethics.Geoffrey B. Frasz - 1993 - Environmental Ethics 15 (3):259-274.
Environmental Virtue Ethics.Geoffrey B. Frasz - 1993 - Environmental Ethics 15 (3):259-274.

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