1st Edition

Duties Regarding Nature A Kantian Environmental Ethic

By Toby Svoboda Copyright 2015
172 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

In this book, Toby Svoboda develops and defends a Kantian environmental virtue ethic, challenging the widely-held view that Kant's moral philosophy has little to offer environmental ethics. On the contrary, Svoboda contends that on Kantian grounds, there is good moral reason to care about non-human organisms in their own right and to value their flourishing independently of human... Read more

Introduction: Kant and Environmental Ethics  1. Standard Approaches to Environmental Ethics  2. Kantian Approaches to Animal Ethics and Environmental Ethics  3. Indirect Duties, Moral Perfection, and Virtuous Dispositions  4. Teleology and Non-Human Flourishing  5. A Kantian Environmental Virtue Ethic  6. Advantages of the Kantian Environmental Virtue Ethic

Biography

Toby Svoboda is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University, USA. His work on animal and environmental ethics has been published in Environmental Values, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, and Ethics, Policy & Environment, among other journals.