Chapter 14: The Philosophy of Community and the Environmental Ethic

Richard M. Robinson
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Richard M. Robinson: SUNY Fredonia

A chapter in Business Ethics: Kant, Virtue, and the Nexus of Duty, 2022, pp 263-289 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The “specialness” of our involvements in environmental organizations result from our pursuit of collective imperfect duty. This is reviewed here with reference to some recent contributions. These involvements are explained as necessary for society’s processes and environmental decisions to be “fair and reasoned.” As inputs to these processes, the inspirational aspects of the “sacredness of nature,” as expressed in the classic American environmental literature of Emerson, Thoreau, Muir, Leopold, and Douglas are examined as a motivating foundation for natural preservation in the public domain. These inspirational and sacred aspects support the notion of the “intrinsic value of nature.”

Keywords: Market-valuation paradigm; Collective imperfect duty; Pursuit of a moral community; Reasoned social discourse; Intrinsic value of nature; Sacredness of nature (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-85997-8_14

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