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Shallow vs. Deep Geoethics: Moving Beyond Anthropocentric Views

Frigo, Giovanni ORCID iD icon 1; Ifanger, Luiz Anselmo; Greco, Roberto; Kopnina, Helen; Hillerbrand, Rafaela 1
1 Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

At its inception, geoethics was envisioned as a type of professional ethics concerned with the moral implications of geoscientific research, applications, and practices. More recently, however, some scholars have proposed versions of geoethics as public and global ethics. To better understand these developments, this article considers the relationship between geoethics and environmental ethics by exploring different aspects of the human-nature relation (i.e., the moral status and role of humans in relation to the non-human world). We start by noting that the main strains of geoethical thought elaborated so far represent examples of environmental virtue ethics and defend moral weak anthropocentric positions (e.g., “ethical”, “responsible” or “enlightened” anthropocentrism). Some scholars propose that such weak anthropocentric geoethics can synthesize the different positions in environmental ethics and move beyond them toward a novel and distinct approach. We compare the meaning and the use of the term “anthropocentrism” in both environmental ethics and geoethics, stressing that although geoethics is inevitably epistemically anthropocentric (i.e., anthropogenic), it does not need to be morally anthropocentric. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000167426
Veröffentlicht am 18.01.2024
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1007/s10806-023-09920-y
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsmonat/-jahr 03.2024
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1187-7863, 1573-322X
KITopen-ID: 1000167426
HGF-Programm 37.11.02 (POF IV, LK 01) Societally-Feasible Transformation Pathways
Erschienen in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
Verlag Springer
Band 37
Heft 1
Seiten Art.-Nr.: 2
Vorab online veröffentlicht am 04.01.2024
Schlagwörter Geoethics, Environmental ethics, Anthropocentrism, Ecocentrism, Geoscience education
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