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Giovanni Frigo*, Luiz Anselmo Ifanger, Roberto Greco, Helen Kopnina, Rafaela Hillerbrand
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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. We consider the compatibility of non-anthropocentric stances with current geoethical theory and argue for the integration of normative non-anthropocentric accounts (e.g., ecocentric) into geoethical debates and geoscience education.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 2 |
Journal | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics |
Volume | 37 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 4 Jan 2024 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2024 |
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Kopnina, H. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Kopnina, H. (Member of editorial board), Curry, P. (Member of editorial board), White, I. (Member of editorial board), Gray, J. (Member of editorial board) & Crist, E. (Member of editorial board)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work