Duties Regarding Nature: A Kantian Environmental Ethic

by Toby Svoboda

Book Overview

In this book, Toby Svoboda develops and defends a Kantian environmental virtue ethic, challenging the widely-held view that Kant's moral philosophy has little to offer environmental ethics. On the contrary, Svoboda contends that on Kantian grounds, there is good moral reason to care about non-human organisms in their own right and to value their flourishing independently of human interests, since doing so is constitutive of certain (environmental)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367258404
• ISBN13: 9780367258405
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"