Kant’s concept of indirect duties and environmental ethics

The aim of this paper is to assess whether Kant’s moral theory is suitable to deal with our obligations to take care of nonhuman animals and the environment. Kant’s ethics distinguishes persons, that is, rational beings with unconditional values who are considered as ends in themselves, from things...

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Main Author: Milene Consenso Tonetto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2017-12-01
Series:Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ethic/article/view/54445
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