Publications
Environmental Virtue
- Author(s)
- Mark Coeckelbergh
- Abstract
Environmental virtue ethics faces the problem of motivation: there is a gap between knowledge and action. This paper first analyzes the roots of this problem and discusses possible solutions that require the use of imagination and information technology. Then it reformulates the problem of motivation and the question concerning environmental virtue by using the notion of skill. It sketches the contours of a non-Romantic and non-Stoic virtue ethics that attempts to move beyond dualist assumptions concerning the relations between humans, nature, and technology. In this way, the paper shows how environmental philosophy can benefit from a dialogue with philosophy of technology.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Philosophy
- External organisation(s)
- University of Twente
- Journal
- Environmental Philosophy
- Volume
- 8
- Pages
- 141-170
- No. of pages
- 30
- ISSN
- 1718-0198
- Publication date
- 2011
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 603113 Philosophy
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/9b91ee7f-e469-4aa5-b5f6-dd7a1955829f