Reimagining Ethics : Non-anthropocentric Perspectives on Morality / by Matteo Andreozzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andreozzi, Matteo., Author.

Series:

Ecology and Ethics, 2198-9737 ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology.

Philosophy.

Philosophy of nature.

Human ecology--Study and teaching.

Human ecology.

Bioethics.

Philosophy of Nature.

Environmental Studies.

Local Subjects:

Ecology.

Philosophy.

Philosophy of Nature.

Environmental Studies.

Bioethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XX, 130 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.

Summary:

Several environmental problems are currently seriously undermining the traditional belief that the moral community should be restricted to human beings only. New scientific theories, especially in the fields of biology, ethology, and ecology, together with recent scientific discoveries demonstrating how human activities are jeopardizing ecosystem services urge for a paradigmatic change in our moral convictions. Environmental ethics has taken up the challenge and opened an extremely urgent and inspiring call for philosophical research. This is the call for extending the moral community to non-human and non-paradigmatic entities, regarding them as moral patients. The main aim of this book is to analyze the possibility and the legitimacy of a non-anthropocentric environmental ethic. In pursuing this aim, I primarily demonstrate the possibility and need to extend the status of moral patient beyond the ideal paradigmatic human being. I also provide an original categorization of several theoretical projects that have been proposed in the last few decades. Secondly, this book comprises a constructive critique of the most significant moral theories debated in the field and outlines a personal theoretical proposal for a new environmental ethic. My claim is that the refusal of ethical and ontological supremacy of human beings is not only necessary, but also sufficient to set the foundation for a formally and materially valid ethical system. Even without abandoning the most accepted forms of moral epistemology, it is nonetheless possible to admit the need to respect different kinds of non-human and non-paradigmatic moral patients.

Contents:

Acknowledgments and editorial notes

Introduction

1. Ethics and the environment. Historical and theoretical explanations

2. The fundamentals. Beliefs, attitudes and moral notions

3. Non-anthropocentric moral theories. Formal and material validity

4. The legacy of environmental ethics. Nature, humanity, values and principles

Bibliography.

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-031-94870-X

OCLC:

1535967041