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Duties Regarding Nature Toby Svoboda

Duties Regarding Nature By Toby Svoboda

Duties Regarding Nature by Toby Svoboda


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This book defends a Kantian environmental virtue ethic, challenging the view that Kant's moral philosophy has little to offer environmental ethics. 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 interests.

Duties Regarding Nature Summary

Duties Regarding Nature: A Kantian Environmental Ethic by Toby Svoboda

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 interests, since doing so is constitutive of certain (environmental) virtues. Svoboda argues that Kant's account of indirect duties regarding nature can ground a compelling environmental ethic: the Kantian duty to develop morally virtuous dispositions strictly proscribes unnecessarily harming organisms, and it also gives us moral reason to act in ways that benefit such organisms. Svoboda's account engages the recent literature on environmental virtue (including Rosalind Hursthouse, Philip Cafaro, Ronald Sandler, Thomas Hill, and Louke van Wensveen) and provides an original argument for an environmental ethic firmly rooted in Kant's moral philosophy.

About Toby Svoboda

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.

Table of Contents

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

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NLS9780367258405
9780367258405
0367258404
Duties Regarding Nature: A Kantian Environmental Ethic by Toby Svoboda
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2019-03-05
172
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