Environmental Ethics. From theory to practical change

Moral Intuition, Moral Theory, and Practical Ethics

Is Moral Theory Useful in Practical Ethics?

Many applied or practical ethicists hold that ethical theories have little value in practical ethics. The theories such critics have in mind are probably most often utilitarianism and a Kantian ethics of respect for persons, which I shall refer to as RP theory. This criticism applies to both practical ethics done in the classroom and in other venues, such as professional publication. The critic...

Brain matters: from environmental ethics to environmental neuroethics

The ways in which humans affect and are affected by their environments have been studied from many different perspectives over the past decades. However, it was not until the 1970s that the discussion of the ethical relationship between humankind and the environment formalized as an academic discipline with the emergence of environmental ethics. A few decades later, environmental health emerged...

Damages Caused by Oil Pollution to the Environment from the Perspective of Environmental Rights and Ethics

Background: In order to protect the environment, humans are required to comply with environmental ethics, as set forth in environmental laws. Unfortunately, oil pollution has had many negative impacts on the Earth's environment in recent years, so various countries have been examining and deciding on new environmental laws over many years. Many decisions overlap with international law and have ...

Ethics without a Net: a Case Study in How to Do Practical Ethics without Appeal to a Moral Theory

The traditional approach to practical ethics is to take one’s preferred moral theory, say hedonistic utilitarianism or a Kantian theory, and it to some controversial moral issue. Hence, the name “applied ethics”. The name itself suggests that all the important philosophical and ethical work has already been done at the theoretical and metatheoretical level and that practical ethics is just a tr...