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Anthropocentric Teleological Environmental Ethics

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The paper entitled ‘Anthropocentric teleological environmental ethics’ is quite suggestive. I have tried to pinpoint that environmental ethics is both anthropocentric and teleological. I contend that man is the sole bearer of values. Environment serves human purpose. Man gives values to environment or Mother Earth. Indians with their reverence for sacred rivers have always been close to nature. I propose integral teleological environmental ethical theory which integrates man and nature, deontological and teleological theories. It reconciles between anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric views of environment.

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  1. Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, India

    Ramesh Chandra Sinha

  2. Department of Philosophy, Patna University, Patna, India

    Ramesh Chandra Sinha

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Sinha, R.C. Anthropocentric Teleological Environmental Ethics. J. Indian Counc. Philos. Res. 38, 125–136 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40961-021-00245-7

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