No. 60 (2021): January - June
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Beyond Application. The Case of Environmental Ethics

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  • Luca Valera,
  • Gabriel Vidal,
  • Yuliana Leal
Luca Valera
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
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Gabriel Vidal
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
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Yuliana Leal
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v0i60.1122

Published 2020-10-27

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Valera, L., Vidal, G., & Leal, Y. (2020). Beyond Application. The Case of Environmental Ethics. Tópicos, Revista De Filosofía, (60), 437–460. https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v0i60.1122
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Abstract

Environmental ethics is often seen as a branch of applied ethics whose task is to offer solutions to emerging ethical dilemmas in the context of ecology. In this paper, we challenge this assumption, showing how the object of environmental ethics raises questions that go beyond that of applied ethics. We explore how the environmental issues bring up the need to inquire into the ontological status of Nature and the place of human beings in it, raising more general and far-reaching questions that do not get entrapped in the mere application. In this regard, it appears that “dwelling”, in its ontological sense, is at the bottom of these questions, creating a bridge between the ontological and the practical realm. Finally, we review classical environmental ethics’ paradigms highlighting the elements that go beyond applied ethics. And so, taking into account the different environmental ethics paradigms, we have two options: reducing the scope of the discipline and exclude the models that exceed it, or reconsidering it as an environmental philosophy tout court.

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