Hans Jonas – The Altered Action of Human Action, The Imperative of Responsibility

Jonas’ main idea in his “Imperative of Responsibility” is that the technology have turned into a threat, and that technology is automatically connected with the threat. He comes of the thought that the way to uncover the world is through enframing, where not only the nature, but also human are part of something called “standing […]

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Heather Davis and Zoe Todd, “On the Importance of a Date, or Decolonizing the Anthropocene”

For our next blog post we looked in depth at the Todd and Davis’ piece entitled “On the Importance of a Date, or Decolonizing the Anthropocene”. The paper begins with an attempt to emphasize the importance of understanding that the Anthropocene is here, and that people need to acknowledge that. They argue that the beginning […]

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“Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene,” Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene.

Donna Haraway’s essay on tentacular thinking focuses on three key components; Anthropocene, Capitalocene, and Chthulucene. In her unordinary essay, she offers us her thoughts on climate change. The word Anthropocene comes from “anthropos” – greek human. As a matter of fact, human evidence is the significant factor that drives the geological change. She problematizes it […]

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What is Social Ecology?

Murray Bookchin starts off his essay with a strong argument about social ecology. He says that the “social” is often an overlooked fact that almost all of our current ecological problems come from social problems. In addition, he believes that these problems cannot be understood or solved if we won’t start dealing with the problems […]

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Brian Treanor, “Virtue Ethics and Environmental Virtue Ethics,” in Emplotting Virtue

In this piece called “Virtue Ethics and Environmental Virtue Ethics” Brian Treanor offers account of environmental ethics in a virtue ethics framework. He believes that the key point of ethics is not “what sort of action should I perform?” but rather , “what sort of person should I be?”. In fact, he is convinced that […]

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Philip Cafaro, “Virtue Ethics,” in Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy Ronald Sandler, “A Theory of Environmental Virtue”

In this piece of writing by Carafo, virtue ethics is explained as “the branch of ethics that focuses on issues of character, excellence, and human flourishing.” It’s explained that there are two positions of virtue ethics, one being that it is the foundation of ethics in general and the other argues that it is a […]

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