Character and Environment: A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics

by Ronald L. Sandler

Book Overview

Virtue ethics is now widely recognized as an alternative to Kantian and consequentialist ethical theories. However, moral philosophers have been slow to bring virtue ethics to bear on topics in applied ethics. Moreover, environmental virtue ethics is an underdeveloped area of environmental ethics. Although environmental ethicists often employ virtue-oriented evaluation (such as respect, care, and love for nature) and appeal to role models (such...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231141076
• ISBN13: 9780231141079
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher