Volume 23, Issue 3, Fall 2001
Louke van Wensveen
Pages 227-241
Ecosystem Sustainability as a Criterion for Genuine Virtue
I propose an ecologically attuned criterion for genuine virtue, namely, the criterion of ecosustainable virtue: a genuine virtue includes the goal of ensuring ecosystem sustainability. I show how this criterion emerges from environmental practice and how it can be supported by syllogistic reasoning.