Good and Justice in the Context of Environmental Ethics
The article is an attempt to review some basic ethical concepts in their historical and substantive development, within the context of the environment and environmental knowledge. It also tries to answer the question whether there is a difference between traditional and environmental ethics. The co...
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Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
2022-03-01
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The article is an attempt to review some basic ethical concepts in their historical and substantive development, within the context of the environment and environmental knowledge. It also tries to answer the question whether there is a difference between traditional and environmental ethics. The comparative-historical method is used, which considers some classical ethical concepts and their interpretations related to the environment. The concepts of classical and modern scientists are also analyzed. The authors consider whether these concepts should be supplemented with new content in this area or should be reformulated in terms of moral relevance not only for the human community, but also for all non-human inhabitants of the environment. The article explores issues about the origin of morality, as well as some ideas about the moral status of attitudes among primates. More important conclusions are that ethics and environmental knowledge must be developed in cooperation in order to explain and form moral consciousness, a new type of ethos that does not allow indifference to the environment in human interaction with it, and that moral considerations should contain not only prescriptions for due human behavior in human society, but also obligations to non-human inhabitants of nature or to the environment.
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| spelling | doaj-art-be643bbb52dc40da9b723342977685aa2025-02-02T03:46:35ZengUniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w WarszawieStudia Ecologiae et Bioethicae1733-12182022-03-0120110.21697/seb.2022.03Good and Justice in the Context of Environmental EthicsNikolai Mihailov0Lidia Sakelarieva1Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Blagoevgrad, The article is an attempt to review some basic ethical concepts in their historical and substantive development, within the context of the environment and environmental knowledge. It also tries to answer the question whether there is a difference between traditional and environmental ethics. The comparative-historical method is used, which considers some classical ethical concepts and their interpretations related to the environment. The concepts of classical and modern scientists are also analyzed. The authors consider whether these concepts should be supplemented with new content in this area or should be reformulated in terms of moral relevance not only for the human community, but also for all non-human inhabitants of the environment. The article explores issues about the origin of morality, as well as some ideas about the moral status of attitudes among primates. More important conclusions are that ethics and environmental knowledge must be developed in cooperation in order to explain and form moral consciousness, a new type of ethos that does not allow indifference to the environment in human interaction with it, and that moral considerations should contain not only prescriptions for due human behavior in human society, but also obligations to non-human inhabitants of nature or to the environment. https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/seb/article/view/9764environmentsocietyenvironmental justiceecologymorality |
| spellingShingle | Nikolai Mihailov Lidia Sakelarieva Good and Justice in the Context of Environmental Ethics Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae environment society environmental justice ecology morality |
| title | Good and Justice in the Context of Environmental Ethics |
| title_full | Good and Justice in the Context of Environmental Ethics |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Good and Justice in the Context of Environmental Ethics |
| title_short | Good and Justice in the Context of Environmental Ethics |
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| topic | environment society environmental justice ecology morality |
| url | https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/seb/article/view/9764 |
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