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Environmental virtue ethics: half the truth but dangerous as a whole

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2005

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Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, publisher

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Virtue cannot be self-contained but must be in place. We actualize a uniquely human capacity for excellence when we respect non-human life. If this really comes from appreciating otherness, then such human virtue is tributary to value in other forms of life. If a virtue ethics is unable to disentwine human virtues from intrinsic values in nature, we have but a half truth, dangerous if taken for the whole.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-78).

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values
ethics
environmentalism
nature
character
culture
virtue
unexamined life
caring

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