Building Within Space: Thoughts Towards an Environmental Ethics
The need for constructing an environmental ethics that keeps sustainability in mind is the result of a collision of the realization that the natural environment is neither limitless nor impervious to actions with a view of nature that has been fundamentally instrumentalist and anthropocentric. This...
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Adam Mickiewicz University
2014-02-01
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| description | The need for constructing an environmental ethics that keeps sustainability in mind is the result of a collision of the realization that the natural environment is neither limitless nor impervious to actions with a view of nature that has been fundamentally instrumentalist and anthropocentric. This paper will borrow from architectural theory in an effort to do two things: First, it will point to some of the limitations of an anthropocentric view of nature and how it impacts efforts to influence environmental policy; second, it will suggest that ideas from Aristotle and Actor Network Theory can help to provide a paradigm within which we can think about nature in a way that offers an alternative framing of questions about the environment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-06aa96275b7f427eb436d26de742eb8e2022-12-21T19:21:21ZdeuAdam Mickiewicz UniversityEthics in Progress2084-92572084-92572014-02-015180959035Building Within Space: Thoughts Towards an Environmental EthicsTroy Paddock0Southern Connecticut State University; New Haven, ConnecticutThe need for constructing an environmental ethics that keeps sustainability in mind is the result of a collision of the realization that the natural environment is neither limitless nor impervious to actions with a view of nature that has been fundamentally instrumentalist and anthropocentric. This paper will borrow from architectural theory in an effort to do two things: First, it will point to some of the limitations of an anthropocentric view of nature and how it impacts efforts to influence environmental policy; second, it will suggest that ideas from Aristotle and Actor Network Theory can help to provide a paradigm within which we can think about nature in a way that offers an alternative framing of questions about the environment.https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/eip/article/view/9385Environmental ethics, conservation, architecture, action in space, Mosel River, Actor Network Theory, instrumentalism, nature |
| spellingShingle | Troy Paddock Building Within Space: Thoughts Towards an Environmental Ethics Ethics in Progress Environmental ethics, conservation, architecture, action in space, Mosel River, Actor Network Theory, instrumentalism, nature |
| title | Building Within Space: Thoughts Towards an Environmental Ethics |
| title_full | Building Within Space: Thoughts Towards an Environmental Ethics |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Building Within Space: Thoughts Towards an Environmental Ethics |
| title_short | Building Within Space: Thoughts Towards an Environmental Ethics |
| title_sort | building within space thoughts towards an environmental ethics |
| topic | Environmental ethics, conservation, architecture, action in space, Mosel River, Actor Network Theory, instrumentalism, nature |
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