Environmental ethics should centre identity, emotion, and particularity
Evidence
It is not, then, that we need to abandon ethical aspects of environmental philosophy, or opt for an entirely contextual ethics. Rather environmental ethics needs a different and richer understanding of ethics, one which gives an important place to the issues surrounding human identity, allows for ethical concepts owning to emotionality and particularity, and abandons the exclusive focus on the universal and the abstract associated with egoism, and the dualistic and oppositional accounts of the reason/emotion and universal/particular contrasts given in rationalist accounts of ethics. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 700
Categorization
- XREF: Crystallises the book’s constructive alternative — this is the positive project the reader wants for the polyad, complementing Merchant’s deconstructive history. — connects to: Ecological selfhood must challenge public instrumentalism, not stay a private practice — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 708; Environmental ethics critiques Enlightenment frameworks while remaining trapped within its rationality — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 360; The philosophical-scientific worldview blocks environmental ethics from valuing insentient nature (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Beauvoir grounded ethics in situated particulars rather than abstract universal rules
#corroborates(0.82) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 880 - Believing the earth loves us back would transform environmental ethics
#expands(0.80) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 433 - Personalized climate outcomes motivate better than abstract intergenerational ethics.
#exemplifies(0.78) - The philosophical-scientific worldview blocks environmental ethics from valuing insentient nature
#qualifies(0.75) - Environmental degradation of a place is experienced as an attack on community identity
#corroborates(0.75) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 232 - Environmental ethics critiques Enlightenment frameworks while remaining trapped within its rationality
#complicates(0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 360