ECOLOGICAL ETHICS AS A CULTURAL EVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITY
Journal Title: JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN HUMANITIES - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
The present paper deals with the project of ecological ethics as a distinctive field of ethics, transgressing the sphere of interpersonal relations to which ethics used to be restricted until relatively recently. Ecological ethics articulates the relation between human beings and other living entities and alternatively other nonhuman natural substances. Ecological ethics has become an interdisciplinary poly-discourse, an attempt to draw attention to the deeper meaning of life; it has become a new way of reflecting on our place in the natural world by raising questions about what we need to know (competence of science), how we need to act (competence of ethics and politics) with regard to the environmental and ecological aspects of understanding of our existence. In addition, the present paper adds to these theoretical implications the concept of pronaturalness[1]based on the fact that our decision to adopt this attitude determines our status of moral, rational and intelligent beings capable of amplifying our positions and perspectives of nature in a global context.
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Lubov Vladykova
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