Environmental Ethics 25 (4):339-358 (2003)
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There have been several recent defenses of biocentric individualism, the position that all living beings have at least some moral standing, simply insofar as they are alive. I develop a virtue-based version of biocentric individualism, focusing on a virtue of reverence for life. In so doing, I attempt to show that such a virtuebased approach allows us to avoid common objections to biocentric individualism, based on its supposed impracticability (or, on the other hand, its emptiness).
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| Keywords | environmental ethics biocentric reverence for life virtue virtue ethics |
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| ISBN(s) | 0163-4275 |
| DOI | 10.5840/enviroethics20032542 |
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