Journal
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
Volume 26, Issue 5, Pages 999-1014Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10806-013-9437-z
Keywords
Biophilia; Collective virtue; Environmental virtues; E. O. Wilson; Eudaemonism
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Beginning with E. O. Wilson's notion of biophilia, our innate tendency to focus on life and life-like processes, I construct an environmental virtue with the same name that meets certain criteria an environmental virtue should meet. I argue that this virtue can have its status as a virtue by its contribution to human flourishing, while having care for live nature as its target, and care about live nature as its affective content. I explore its characteristics as both an individual and a collective virtue, and finally show how cultivation of it might serve to unite various communities in the cause of preserving biodiversity.
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