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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Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
2020-12-01
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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-995684a64abe4004b180f339e924f1da2025-02-02T03:46:54ZengUniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w WarszawieStudia 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 |
| spellingShingle | Dominika Dzwonkowska 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 |
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| 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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