Contrā Dale Jamieson, the study of the metaethical foundations of environmental ethics may well lead students to a more environmentally responsible way of life. For although metaethics is rarely decisive in decision making and action, there are two kinds of circumstances in which it can play a crucial role in our practical decisions. First, decisions that have unusual features do not summon habitual ethical reactions, and hence invite the application of ethical precepts that the study of metaethics and ethical theory isolate and clarify. Second, there are times in which the good of others (including organisms and systems in the natural world) may well be given greater weight in one's ethical deliberations if theory has made clear that the good to be promoted is ontologically independent of one's own good. Contrā Dale Jamieson, the study of the metaethical foundations of environmental ethics may well lead students to a more environmentally responsible way of life. For although metaethics is rarely decisive in decision making and action, there are two kinds of circumstances in which it can play a crucial role in our practical decisions. First, decisions that have unusual features do not summon habitual ethical reactions, and hence invite the application of ethical precepts that the study of metaethics and ethical theory isolate and clarify. Second, there are times in which the good of others (including organisms and systems in the natural world) may well be given greater weight in one's ethical deliberations if theory has made clear that the good to be promoted is ontologically independent of one's own good.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2004
توصيف ظاهري
185-197
عنوان
Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
شماره جلد
8/2-3
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1568-5357
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اصطلاح موضوعی
DALE JAMIESON
اصطلاح موضوعی
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
اصطلاح موضوعی
ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
اصطلاح موضوعی
ENVIRONMENTAL VALUE
اصطلاح موضوعی
METAETHICS
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