Mutual Flourishing: A Dialogical Approach to Environmental Virtue Ethics
Environmental virtue ethics is about how things (nature) matter, and this is explicated through the virtues (character and dispositions of the agent). It has been suggested that human virtue should be informed by what constitutes our flourishing and by what constitutes nonhuman entities flourishing....
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| description | Environmental virtue ethics is about how things (nature) matter, and this is explicated through the virtues (character and dispositions of the agent). It has been suggested that human virtue should be informed by what constitutes our flourishing and by what constitutes nonhuman entities flourishing. Our flourishing, in other words, involves recognising their flourishing and autonomy. My purpose in this paper is to elucidate the notion of mutual flourishing through a study on the relational space that a recognising attitude or disposition of a loving and caring subject creates in its interactions with ‘earth others’. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-efdaa3fd5ef7432a89a6565fd5d158a62024-02-23T15:31:28ZengMDPI AGPhilosophies2409-92872023-12-0191610.3390/philosophies9010006Mutual Flourishing: A Dialogical Approach to Environmental Virtue EthicsEsteban Arcos0CIRE (Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Éthique), University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, SwitzerlandEnvironmental virtue ethics is about how things (nature) matter, and this is explicated through the virtues (character and dispositions of the agent). It has been suggested that human virtue should be informed by what constitutes our flourishing and by what constitutes nonhuman entities flourishing. Our flourishing, in other words, involves recognising their flourishing and autonomy. My purpose in this paper is to elucidate the notion of mutual flourishing through a study on the relational space that a recognising attitude or disposition of a loving and caring subject creates in its interactions with ‘earth others’.https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/9/1/6mutual flourishingrecognitionautonomylove (of nature)relational spacerelational ontology |
| spellingShingle | Esteban Arcos Mutual Flourishing: A Dialogical Approach to Environmental Virtue Ethics Philosophies mutual flourishing recognition autonomy love (of nature) relational space relational ontology |
| title | Mutual Flourishing: A Dialogical Approach to Environmental Virtue Ethics |
| title_full | Mutual Flourishing: A Dialogical Approach to Environmental Virtue Ethics |
| title_fullStr | Mutual Flourishing: A Dialogical Approach to Environmental Virtue Ethics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mutual Flourishing: A Dialogical Approach to Environmental Virtue Ethics |
| title_short | Mutual Flourishing: A Dialogical Approach to Environmental Virtue Ethics |
| title_sort | mutual flourishing a dialogical approach to environmental virtue ethics |
| topic | mutual flourishing recognition autonomy love (of nature) relational space relational ontology |
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