Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Format of Original
13 p.
Publication Date
6-2004
Publisher
Brill
Source Publication
World Views: Environment, Culture, Religion
Source ISSN
1363-5247
Abstract
Contrā Dale Jamieson, the study of the metaethical foundations of environmental ethics may well lead students to a more environmentally responsible way of life. For although metaethics is rarely decisive in decision making and action, there are two kinds of circumstances in which it can play a crucial role in our practical decisions. First, decisions that have unusual features do not summon habitual ethical reactions, and hence invite the application of ethical precepts that the study of metaethics and ethical theory isolate and clarify. Second, there are times in which the good of others (including organisms and systems in the natural world) may well be given greater weight in one’s ethical deliberations if theory has made clear that the good to be promoted is ontologically independent of one’s own good.
Recommended Citation
Goldin, Owen, "Environmental Education and Metaethics" (2004). Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications. 90.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/phil_fac/90
Comments
Accepted version. World Views: Environment, Culture, Religion, Vol. 8, No. 2-3 (June 2004): 185-197. DOI. © 2004 Brill Academic Publishers. Used with permission.