There is no such thing as environmental ethics

Engineers and scientists, whose professional responsibilities often influence the natural environment, have sought to develop an environmental ethic that will be in tune with their attitudes toward the nonhuman environment, and that will assist them in decision making regarding questions of environm...

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Published in:Science and engineering ethics 1996, Vol.2 (3), p.307-318
Main Author: Vesilind, P. Aarne
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Engineers and scientists, whose professional responsibilities often influence the natural environment, have sought to develop an environmental ethic that will be in tune with their attitudes toward the nonhuman environment, and that will assist them in decision making regarding questions of environmental quality. Explores the classical traditions in normative ethics, in an attempt to formulate such an environmental ethic. Concludes that because the discipline of ethics is directed at person to person interactions, ethics as a scholarly discipline does not help us understand how we ought to treat nonhuman nature. Includes four commentaries in response. (Original abstract - amended)
ISSN:1353-3452
1471-5546
DOI:10.1007/BF02583916