The Process of Moral Construction and the Environment

Richard M. Robinson ()
Additional contact information
Richard M. Robinson: SUNY Fredonia

Chapter 2 in Business Ethics and the Environment, 2025, pp 19-35 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract European Enlightenment Philosophy (seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy) led to democratic revolutions and ultimately the commercial and economic reforms that led to our Industrial Revolution. At the height of this era, Immanuel Kant posed the categorical imperative process as representing common thinking about methods for deriving practical moral maxims (principles of action) and associated duties. The role of reflective thought in establishing and maintaining these maxims is emphasized here. The categorization of our maxims into their associated perfect and imperfect duties is reviewed so that absolute prohibitions (perfect duties or “duties of right”) can be understood as distinctly different from those volitional duties (imperfect duties or “duties of virtue”) that pursue wide objectives but with practical limitations. This latter category is shown to be particularly germane to environmental ethics and related advocacy organizations.

Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sptchp:978-3-032-04137-1_2

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783032041371

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-04137-1_2

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Texts in Business and Economics from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().