Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Ecological Studies (CESSES 2018)

Sympathy for Nature in Contemporary Ethical Discourse

Authors
Aleksey Chernyak, Svetlana Rudanovskaya
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Aleksey Chernyak
Available Online November 2018.
DOI
10.2991/cesses-18.2018.169How to use a DOI?
Keywords
sympathy for nature; careful treatment of nature; utilitarianism; ethics of reverence for life; ecological ethics; ecological thinking
Abstract

Sympathy for nature is an essential component of ecological thinking, and a sign of ethical perception of nature. The proposed paper analyzes the ways nature is understood and treated in J. Bentham’s utilitarianism, ethics of A. Schweitzer, and ecological ethics of A. Leopold, especially the motives of sympathetic and careful attitude towards it which may be observed within these approaches. The main question the authors seek to answer is: to what extent sympathy for nature may be free from egocentric attitudes and preoccupation with human problems and demands? They find that there is a tendency within contemporary ecological thinking to free itself from both: purely utilitarian vision of nature, and paternalistic attitude toward it.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Ecological Studies (CESSES 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
November 2018
ISBN
10.2991/cesses-18.2018.169
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/cesses-18.2018.169How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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