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Hume’s Knave and Nonanthropocentric Virtues created by Paul Haught

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Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: This essay offers a critical assessment of environmental virtue ethics (EVE). Finding an environmental ethical analogy with Hume’s critique of the sensible knave, I argue that EVE is limited in much the same way as morality is on the Humean view. Advocates of nonanthropocentrism will find it difficult to engage those whose virtues comport them to anthropocentrism. Nonetheless, EVE is able to ground confidence in nonanthropocentric virtues by explicating specific key virtues, thereby holding open the possibility of bridging the motivational gap between anthropocentrism and nonanthropocentrism.
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This essay offers a critical assessment of environmental virtue ethics
(EVE). Finding an environmental ethical analogy with Hume’s critique of the
sensible knave, I argue that EVE is limited in much the same way as morality is on
the Humean view. Advocates of nonanthropocentrism will find it difficult to engage
those whose virtues comport them to anthropocentrism. Nonetheless, EVE is able to
ground confidence in nonanthropocentric virtues by explicating specific key virtues,
thereby holding open the possibility of bridging the motivational gap between
anthropocentrism and nonanthropocentrism.

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