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Biophilia as an Environmental Virtue created by David Clowney

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Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: Beginning with E. O. Wilson’s notion of biophilia, our “innate tendency to focus on life and life-like processes,” I construct an environmental virtue with the same name that meets certain criteria an environmental virtue should meet. I argue that this virtue can have its status as a virtue by its contribution to human flourishing, while having care for live nature as its target, and care about live nature as its affective content. I explore its characteristics as both an individual and a collective virtue, and finally show how cultivation of it might serve to unite various communities in the cause of preserving biodiversity.
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Journal Article Journal Article Main Library BJ52.5 JOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Vol 26.No. 5 pages 999-1014 SP18667 Not for loan For Inhouse use only
Journal Article Journal Article Main Library BJ52.5 JOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Vol 26.No. 5 pages 999-1014 SP18667 Not for loan For Inhouse use only

Beginning with E. O. Wilson’s notion of biophilia, our “innate tendency to focus on life and life-like processes,” I construct an environmental virtue with the same name that meets certain criteria an environmental virtue should meet. I argue that this virtue can have its status as a virtue by its contribution to human flourishing, while having care for live nature as its target, and care about live nature as its affective content. I explore its characteristics as both an individual and a collective virtue, and finally show how cultivation of it might serve to unite various communities in the cause of preserving biodiversity.

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