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The wild and the wicked : on nature and human nature / Benjamin Hale

Hale, Benjamin [Verfasser]

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2017

Oxford : Oxford University Press

1 Online-Ressource : Illustrations (black and white)

Previously issued in print: 2017

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-262-33649-9 ; 978-0-26-203540-8

AR 14000

 

Philosophie  Umwelt  Umweltethik 

 

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Many ethicists and political advocates believe that the argument for environmentalism is simple: demonstrate that nature is valuable and obligations to protect the environment will follow. This approach to environmentalism often appears as a kind of consequentialism. This work, though sympathetic with environmentalism, argues against this consequentialist approach. It takes as its initiating presupposition the opposite stance: that nature can at times be quite disvaluable. In assuming this stance, it aims to carve a sharp distinction between events and actions, fundamentally splitting open the idea that actions are taken for reasons.