Environmental vices as ethical and anthropological roots of the environmental crisis

The root of environmental crisis is not only the failure to recognize the intrinsic value of the non-human world, but it can also be perceived as a failure in moral excellence and in the cultivation of virtue. The word “virtue” is an old-fashioned one, representing tradition and today we mostly asso...

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Main Author: Dominika Dzwonkowska
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego 2020-12-01
Series:Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/seb/article/view/7214
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description The root of environmental crisis is not only the failure to recognize the intrinsic value of the non-human world, but it can also be perceived as a failure in moral excellence and in the cultivation of virtue. The word “virtue” is an old-fashioned one, representing tradition and today we mostly associate it with academic discussion. However, the term is not only connected with traditional ethical reflection; nowadays, we can witness a revival of virtue discourse in environmental ethics, namely in environmental virtue ethics. The paper analyses the problem of cardinal virtue and vice, and tries to answer which vices are the most responsible for the environmental crisis. Thus the five crucial environmental vices are defined as egoism, greed, arrogance, ignorance and apathy.
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spelling doaj.art-995684a64abe4004b180f339e924f1da2022-12-22T03:50:51ZengWydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana WyszyńskiegoStudia Ecologiae et Bioethicae1733-12182020-12-0118510.21697/seb.2020.18.5.15Environmental vices as ethical and anthropological roots of the environmental crisisDominika Dzwonkowska0Institute of Ecology and Bioethics, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, The root of environmental crisis is not only the failure to recognize the intrinsic value of the non-human world, but it can also be perceived as a failure in moral excellence and in the cultivation of virtue. The word “virtue” is an old-fashioned one, representing tradition and today we mostly associate it with academic discussion. However, the term is not only connected with traditional ethical reflection; nowadays, we can witness a revival of virtue discourse in environmental ethics, namely in environmental virtue ethics. The paper analyses the problem of cardinal virtue and vice, and tries to answer which vices are the most responsible for the environmental crisis. Thus the five crucial environmental vices are defined as egoism, greed, arrogance, ignorance and apathy.https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/seb/article/view/7214environmental viceenvironmental virtuevirtue ethicsenvironmental ethicsegoismgreed
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Environmental vices as ethical and anthropological roots of the environmental crisis
Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae
environmental vice
environmental virtue
virtue ethics
environmental ethics
egoism
greed
title Environmental vices as ethical and anthropological roots of the environmental crisis
title_full Environmental vices as ethical and anthropological roots of the environmental crisis
title_fullStr Environmental vices as ethical and anthropological roots of the environmental crisis
title_full_unstemmed Environmental vices as ethical and anthropological roots of the environmental crisis
title_short Environmental vices as ethical and anthropological roots of the environmental crisis
title_sort environmental vices as ethical and anthropological roots of the environmental crisis
topic environmental vice
environmental virtue
virtue ethics
environmental ethics
egoism
greed
url https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/seb/article/view/7214
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