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Sharing the Earth: A biocentric account of ecological justice

Wienhues, Anna (2017). Sharing the Earth: A biocentric account of ecological justice. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 30(3):367-385.

Abstract

Although ethical and justice arguments operate in two distinct levels—justice being a more specific concept—they can easily be conflated. A robust justification of ecological justice (justice to nature) requires starting at the roots of justice, rather than merely giving, for example, an argument for why certain non-human beings have moral standing of some kind. Thus, I propose that a theory of ecological justice can benefit from a four-step justification for the inclusion of non-human beings into the community of justice, starting with Hume’s circumstances of justice. I will further argue that the resulting theory of ecological justice should be biocentric—meaning that all living beings should be included into the community of justice, as they constitute a ‘community of fate’.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:01 Faculty of Theology and the Study of Religion > Center for Ethics
06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Philosophy
Dewey Decimal Classification:100 Philosophy
Scopus Subject Areas:Physical Sciences > Environmental Chemistry
Social Sciences & Humanities > History
Life Sciences > Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
Physical Sciences > General Environmental Science
Language:English
Date:1 June 2017
Deposited On:27 Mar 2019 10:19
Last Modified:21 Oct 2024 01:38
Publisher:Springer
ISSN:1187-7863
OA Status:Green
Free access at:Publisher DOI. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-017-9672-9
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