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Umwelt-tugendethik: die halbe Warheit - sie für das Ganze zu halten, ist aber gefährlich

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2005

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Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
Gesellschaft für Ökologisch-Nachhaltige Entwicklung, publisher

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Virtue cannot be self-contained but must be in place. We actualize a uniquely human capacity for excellence when we respect non-human life. If this excellence really comes from appreciating otherness, then such human virtue is tributary to value in other forms of life. If an environmental virtue ethics is unable to disentwine human virtues from intrinsic values in nature, we have but a half truth, dangerous if taken for the whole.

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Originally published as: "Environmental Virtue Ethics: Half the Truth but Dangerous as a Whole." Pages 61-78 in Ronald Sandler and Philip Cafaro, eds., Environmental Virtue Ethics. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-112).

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half truth
human virtues
nature
character
sense of place
unexamined life
caring
values
ethics
culture

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