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Deep Ecology as an Aesthetic Movement
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For example, this article argued that if deep ecology is interpreted as an aesthetic movement, then it is both philosophically coherent and practically adequate, and that deep ecology fails if it is meant to be a moral ethic.Abstract:
Many deep ecologists call for a 'new ecological ethic' . If this ethic is meant to be a moral ethic, then deep ecology fails. However if deep ecology is interpreted as an aesthetic movement, then it is both philosophically coherent and practically adequate.read more
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Non-Anthropocentrism? A Killing Objection
Tony Lynch,David Wells +1 more
TL;DR: To take the idea of a non-anthropocentric ethic of nature seriously is to abandon morality itself as discussed by the authors... The idea of humanity is not an optional extra extra for moral seriousness.
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The Biosemiotic Fundamentals of Aesthetics: Beauty is the Perfect Semiotic Fitting
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The Misbegotten Child of Deep Ecology
TL;DR: This paper argued that deep ecology does not entail a non-anthropocentric or ecocentric environmental ethic; rather, it is best understood as offering an ontological critique of the current environmental crisis, from a perspective of deep anthropocentrism.
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A Hybrid Theory of Environmentalism
TL;DR: For instance, this article argued that wild nature lacks features of intrinsic moral worth, and that leaves a puzzle: Why is it once we subtract the fact that there is such a lack, we are left with strong intuitions against the destruction and/or pollution of wild nature?
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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
TL;DR: The authors argues that our every-day moral codes are an "error theory" based on the presumption of moral facts which, he persuasively argues, don't exist, and refutation of such facts is based on their metaphysical 'queerness' and the observation of cultural relativity.
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The shallow and the deep, long‐range ecology movement. A summary∗
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the principles of diversity, complexity, autonomy, decentralization, symbiosis, egalitarianism, and classlessness of ecology responsible policies, which are concerned only in part with pollution and resource depletion.
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Toward a Transpersonal Ecology: Developing New Foundations for Environmentalism
TL;DR: In the mid 1970s, the discipline of environmental philosophy/ethics (or ecophilosophy) began to flourish as discussed by the authors, which is still very much a marginal rather than a mainstream pursuit in contemporary academic philosophy.
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Green Political Theory
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a taxonomy of the theories of value in the Green political system and the Unity of the Green Programme, as well as the principles of Green Political Action.