Text

Virtue ethics and the environment

---

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 https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

---

Availability

Detail Information

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

Publisher

London : Routledge., 2024

Collation

-

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781003433156

Classification

-

Content Type

text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

1st Edition

Subject(s)

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

-

Other Information

Cataloger

Hasan

Source

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003433156

Validator

Hasan

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003433156

Journal Volume

-

Journal Issue

-

Subtitle

-

Parallel Title

-

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment