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Identify an area of life that has an impact on the environment (including non-human animals), and explain how the possession or lack of virtue may make a difference to how one conducts oneself within that practice with respect to that environmental impact. In other words, when it comes to our relation to the environment, what attitudes and behaviors would be characteristic of a virtuous person, and what attitudes and behaviors may be characteristic of a person who lacks the virtues? How can those who do not have the virtues develop those virtues so that they can reliably act and feel in appropriate fashion with respect to this issue? Be sure to be as specific as possible in your analysis, and support your analysis with evidence from the week’s readings and media, including Hill’s article, “Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments.”
Hill, T. (1983). Ideals of human excellence and preserving natural environments. Journal of Environmental Ethics, 5(3), 211-24. Retrieved from https://www.shodor.org/ncssm/elc/content/attachmen...
- This article discusses the problem of environmental preservation by considering the various kinds of virtues and vices exhibited in different sorts of attitudes and behaviors toward the environment. He argues that this presents a more satisfying approach than thinking in terms of either utilitarian or deontological principles
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Running head: ENVIRONMENTAL VIRTUES
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ENVIRONMENTAL VIRTUES
Human beings have had diverse and contradictory ways of relating to the environment over the
years. The development of environmental ethics has focused towards an attempt to understand
how human beings connect with the environment and determine the norms that govern such
relationship. At the center of analyzing this relationship is answering the question “how should
One live?” (Hill, 1983). When answering this question requires providing an account of what
action we should, or we shouldn’t do. We should also go further to analyze ethics of character
that provides guidance on what attitudes and dispositions we oug...