Building Within Space: Thoughts Towards an Environmental Ethics

• Authors: Troy Paddock
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The need for constructing an environmental ethics that keeps sustainability in mind is the result of a collision of the realization that the natural environment is neither limitless nor impervious to actions with a view of nature that has been fundamentally instrumentalist and anthropocentric. This paper will borrow from architectural theory in an effort to do two things: First, it will point to some of the limitations of an anthropocentric view of nature and how it impacts efforts to influence environmental policy; second, it will suggest that ideas from Aristotle and Actor Network Theory can help to provide a paradigm within which we can think about nature in a way that offers an alternative framing of questions about the environment.

Keywords

EN

Environmental ethics; conservation; architecture; action in space; Mosel River; Actor Network Theory; instrumentalism; nature

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Ethics in Progress
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 80-95

Dates

published

2014-02-01

Contributors

author

Troy Paddock

• Southern Connecticut State University; New Haven, Connecticut

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/eip.2014.1.5