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Hope, Self-Transcendence and Environmental Ethics

机译:希望,自我超越与环境伦理

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Environmental ethicists often hold that organisms, species, ecosystems, and the like have goods of their own. But, even given that such goods exist, whether we ought to value them is controversial. Hence an environmental philosophy needs, in addition to an account of what sorts of values there are, an explanation what, how and why we morally ought to value-that is, an account of moral valuing. This paper presents one such an account. Specifically, I aim to show that unless there are eternal goods (and maybe even if there are), we have a duty of self-transcendence toward nature-that is, a duty to value nature's goods as ends. This duty is owed, however, not to nature, but to ourselves. It is grounded in what I call an imperative of hope. The argument, in a nutshell, is that we have a duty to ourselves to (in a certain sense) optimize hope. This optimization requires self-transcendence toward entities whose goods are more diverse and enduring than any human goods. But unless there are eternal goods, such goods occur only in nature.
机译:环境伦理学家通常认为有机体,物种,生态系统等具有自己的商品。但是,即使考虑到此类商品的存在,我们是否应该对其进行估价还是有争议的。因此,环境哲学除了需要说明存在哪些类型的价值外,还需要解释我们在道德上应该重视的内容,方式和原因,即道德评价。本文提出了一个这样的解释。具体来说,我旨在表明,除非有永恒的商品(甚至可能有永恒的商品),否则我们有对自然的自我超越的义务,即有义务以自然的商品为最终价值。然而,这种责任不是自然的,而是我们自己的。它建立在我所谓的希望的当务之急上。简而言之,论点是我们有义务(在某种意义上)最大化希望。这种优化要求对那些其商品比任何人类商品都更加多样化和持久的实体具有自我超越性。但是,除非有永恒的商品,否则这些商品只会自然发生。

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    《Inquiry》 |2010年第2期|p.162-182|共21页
  • 作者

    JOHN NOLT;

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    Philosophy Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-0480, USA;

  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);
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