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Virtue and vice in environmental discourse

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Dzwonkowska D.

Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae

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2013

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vol. 11

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issue 4

61-76

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For effective environmental protection, the necessary tools are not only the external ones in the form of commands, and legal or economic instruments. A very necessary tool for dealing with the environmental crisis can be inner work on one’s own character and personality, as well as on the social virtues and vices that determine our approach to the environment. Recently, a growing interest in environmental virtue discourse can be noticed, and this paper presents a proposal for five cardinal environmental virtues, and oppositional to these, five cardinal vices. The presented virtues are: care, moderation, respect, wisdom, and responsibility. On the opposite side of the barricade are the following vices: egoism, greed, arrogance, ignorance (stupidity), and apathy.

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Wady środowiskowe jako etyczne i antropologiczne źródła kryzysu środowiskowego

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Dzwonkowska D.

Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae

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2014

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vol. 12

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issue 1

73-91

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The root of environmental crisis is not only the failure to recognize the intrinsic value of the non-human world, but it can also be perceived as a failure in moral excellence and in the cultivation of virtue. The word “virtue” is an old-fashioned one, representing tradition and today we mostly associate it with academic discussion. However, the term is not only connected with traditional ethical reflection; nowadays, we can witness a revival of virtue discourse in environmental ethics, namely in environmental virtue ethics. The paper analyzes the problem of cardinal virtue and vices, and tries to answer which vices are the most responsible for the environmental crisis. Thus the five crucial environmental vices are defined as egoism, greed, arrogance, ignorance and apathy.

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Environmental vices as ethical and anthropological roots of the environmental crisis

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Dzwonkowska D.

Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae

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2020

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vol. 18

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issue 5

171-180

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Źródłem kryzysu środowiskowego jest nie tylko brak uznania wewnętrznej wartości świata poza-ludzkiego, ale również niepowodzenie w kultywowaniu cnoty. Słowo "cnota" jest staromodne i dziś kojarzy nam się głównie z dyskusją akademicką. Jednak termin ten wiąże się nie tylko z tradycyjną refleksją etyczną; dziś jesteśmy świadkami ożywienia dyskursu cnót w etyce środowiskowej i rodzenia się etyki cnót środowiskowych. W artykule analizuje się problem kardynalnych wad i próbuje się odpowiedzieć na pytanie, które z nich są odpowiedzialne za kryzys ekologiczny. W tekście omówiono pięć kluczowych wad środowiskowych: egoizm, chciwość, arogancję, niewiedzę i apatię.

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The root of environmental crisis is not only the failure to recognize the intrinsic value of the non-human world, but it can also be perceived as a failure in moral excellence and in the cultivation of virtue. The word “virtue” is an old-fashioned one, representing tradition and today we mostly associate it with academic discussion. However, the term is not only connected with traditional ethical reflection; nowadays, we can witness a revival of virtue discourse in environmental ethics, namely in environmental virtue ethics. The paper analyses the problem of cardinal virtue and vice, and tries to answer which vices are the most responsible for the environmental crisis. Thus the five crucial environmental vices are defined as egoism, greed, arrogance, ignorance and apathy.

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Virtue and vice in environmental discourse

Wady środowiskowe jako etyczne i antropologiczne źródła kryzysu środowiskowego

Environmental vices as ethical and anthropological roots of the environmental crisis