Review article
REMARKS ON THE OFFER OF ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS THEORIES
Tomislav Smerić
; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb
Abstract
The phenomenon of the offer of environmental ethics theories is commented in this article. The assumption regarding the connection of the phenomenon and specific recognition of environmental crisis representing the symptom of on-coming collision against the final frontiers of Earth/nature is being considered in the context of the offer of new views on the world/nature.
Some problems regarding the foundation of the environmental ethics are being discussed as well: the level of articulation of offered theories, recognition of offered „knowledge“, non-existence of consensus on the status of a discipline. Apart from this the article attempts to separate and analyze certain dominant elements of the offered concepts: critique of anthropocentrism, discussion on antiindividualism, holism, enlargening of the community of moral subjects and objects, requiring self-imposing of limitations and denials, distrusting the sciences and technical developments, rejecting the industrial civilization aspects, commending pre-modern ones, as well as irrationalism and moralism. Furthermore, the problem of relations of the considered concepts of offered solutions with the morals is being pointed out; suggested are some of possible topics of sociology of morals activities in this area. The cooperation of environmental problems ethics reflexion with the sociology of morals on one side, and respecting the traditions of ethics research, on the other, are suggested as possible ways of solving some of the problems of founding of the environment ethics.
Keywords
environmental crisis; environmental ethics; image of the world/nature, morals
Hrčak ID:
138750
URI
Publication date:
15.7.1992.
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