Knowledge and Obligation in Environmental Ethics
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- Published by Philosophy Documentation Center in Environmental Ethics
- Vol. 4 (2) , 153-162
- https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics19824221
Abstract
Ecological ethics, in which ecological science informs the basic principles of morality, requires a significant revision of traditional metaethics, especially regarding the views (1) that moral judgments are justified by deductive argument, and (2) that there is a dichotomy between fact and value. This interpretation of the relationship between knowledge and obligation is grounded in the phenomenology of perception with special attention to the role of a person’s world view in the perception of both facts and values and the fittingness relation between perception, world view, and obligation.Keywords
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