Skip to main content

1st Edition

Virtue Ethics and the Environment

By Dominika Dzwonkowska Copyright 2025

186 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

186 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

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... Read more

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: 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 II: 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 III: 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

Conclusion

Author(s)

Biography

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

Add to Cart