Papers by Rev Fr Henry Longbottom
The focus of this paper is environmental virtue ethics as presented by Ronald Sandler. I shall e... more The focus of this paper is environmental virtue ethics as presented by Ronald Sandler. I shall examine how Sandler’s account compares to other environmental virtue approaches, paying particular attention to the relative strengths and weaknesses of the scientific naturalist basis of his work, his moderate plurality in dealing with questions about moral considerability, how to define relationships between human and non-human entities, and how to characterise an environmental virtue. There will be an examination of Sandler’s claim that his account is able to generate norms regarding environmentally sensitive action. I will conclude that Sandler’s outline of a theory, which entails a variety of principles rather than establishing a single code, is a largely successful application of virtue theory to environmental ethics. There are aspects of his account however, including his treatment of value and meaning, species neutrality, ecosystems, and how institutional structures impinge on environmental virtue, that all need to be developed further.
Protagorus thought that a thing is to me such as it appears to me, and to you such as it appears ... more Protagorus thought that a thing is to me such as it appears to me, and to you such as it appears to you' (Theaetetus 152a). Does Plato show that Socrates successfully refuted relativism?
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Papers by Rev Fr Henry Longbottom