Overview

This book addresses one of today’s most burning issues, namely the environmental crisis, by offering an insight into the problem from the perspective of virtue ethics. Virtue ethics is an approach to ethics that centralizes the concept of moral virtue, which can be extended to environmental ethics via environmental virtue ethics (EVE). Beginning with a comprehensive overview, the book explores the renaissance of contemporary virtue ethics and the beginnings of EVE in the second half of the 20th century and presents the main characteristics, proponents, and criticisms of EVE. The book then goes on to analyze its development by distinguishing the three most influential concepts: the classical; the naturalistic, teleological, and pluralistic; and the narrative conception of environmental virtue ethics. The author also discusses the most influential works on EVE, including a revision of Louke van Wensveen’s postulate to use virtue language in environmental ethics. By synthesizing such works on EVE alongside an analysis of the three most important concepts, the book offers a new concept that is universalistic, positive, and pragmatic. The book will be useful for students, scholars, and researchers studying environmental ethics, sustainable development, environmental psychology, moral philosophy, and philosophy of education. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Author:   Dominika Dzwonkowska
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781032559704

ISBN 10:   1032559705
Pages:   180
Publication Date:   11 July 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction to environmental virtue ethics 1. Contemporary virtue ethics 2. Contemporary virtue ethics in the face of the environmental crisis 3. The language of virtue ethics Part 2: Contemporary concepts of environmental virtue ethics 4. Classic environmental virtue ethics 5. Naturalistic, teleological, and pluralistic environmental virtue ethics 6. Narrative environmental virtue ethics Part 3: Presentation of universalistic, positive, and practical environmental virtue ethics 7. Evaluation of the three concepts of environmental virtue ethics (EVE) 8. A proposal of universalistic, positive, and practical environmental virtue ethics

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Dominika Dzwonkowska is Professor of Philosophy in the Institute of Philosophy at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland.

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