Being a Friend to Nature: Environmental Virtues and Ethical Ideals
Document Type
Article - Merrimack Access Only
Publication Title
Ethics, Policy & Environment
Publication Date
2017
Abstract/ Summary
This paper argues that environmental virtue ethics requires the adoption of an ethical ideal in order to guide the identification and practice of virtues. I recommend friendship as one such ideal due to emphasis such an ideal places upon the quality of the relationship with nature rather than the evaluation of individual actions. After describing the value of friendship as an ethical ideal, I respond to some of the objections that have been raised against it in the context of environmental virtue.
Repository Citation
Bannon, B.
(2017). Being a Friend to Nature: Environmental Virtues and Ethical Ideals. Ethics, Policy & Environment, 20(1), 44-58.
Available at: https://scholarworks.merrimack.edu/phl_facpub/12
