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040 _aMSU
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100 _aTreanor, Brian
_eauthor
245 _aEnvironmentalism and Public Virtue
_ccreated by Brian Treanor
264 _aLos Angeles
_bSpringer
_c2009
336 _2rdacontent
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337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
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338 _2rdacarrier
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440 _vVolume , number ,
520 _aMuch of the literature addressing environmental virtue tends to focus on what might be called “personal virtue”—individual actions, characteristics, or dispositions that benefit the individual actor. There has, in contrast, been relatively little interest in either “virtue politics”—collective actions, characteristics, or dispositions—or in what might be called “public virtues,” actions, characteristics, or dispositions that benefit the community rather than the individual. This focus, however, is problematic, especially in a society that valorizes individuality. This paper examines public virtue and its role in environmental virtue ethics. First, I outline different types of virtue in order to frame the discussion of public virtues and, in particular, a subclass of virtues I will refer to as political virtue. Second, I focus on practical problems and address the inadequacy of personal virtue for effecting social change and, therefore, for addressing most environmental crises. Finally, I argue that public and political virtues are necessary, if under emphasized, conditions for the flourishing of the individual, and that they are important complements to more traditional environmental virtues.
650 _aEnvironmental virtue
650 _aCivic virtue
650 _aPolitics
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-009-9184-3
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