The discourse-ethical related approach to environmental responsibility
Environmental responsibility involves a number of intricate moral questions that range from the problems of responsible co-operation in collective actions to the intriguing issues of our moral responsibility to non-humans. They pose a challenge to moral philosophy. The main objective of this thesis is to show a way of responding to this challenge. It does so in two complementary ways: firstly, by giving a critique of conventional approaches to environmental responsibility, and secondly, by developing an alternative, discursive approach. The thesis builds on the fundamental assumption that discourse ethics provides the conceptual framework and analytical tools that can enable us to deal satisfactorily with a full range of moral issues raised by environmental problems. The thesis develops a discourse-ethical conception of environmental responsibility that has its rational foundation in the philosophical paradigm of communicative rationality. A post-conventional, universalistic conception of co-responsibility is grounded by reflection on the actual situation of practising communicative rationality, and explained in terms of normative contents, inherent in human communication by speech. It is argued that the transfer
Perdan, Slobodan
Philosophy
The discourse-ethical related approach to environmental responsibility. Environmental responsibility involves a number of intricate moral questions that range from the problems of responsible co-operation in collective actions to the intriguing issues of our moral responsibility to non-humans. They pose a challenge to moral philosophy. The main objective of this thesis is to show a way of responding to this challenge. It does so in two complementary ways: firstly, by giving a critique of conventional approaches to environmental responsibility, and secondly, by developing an alternative, discursive approach. The thesis builds on the fundamental assumption that discourse ethics provides the conceptual framework and analytical tools that can enable us to deal satisfactorily with a full range of moral issues raised by environmental problems. The thesis develops a discourse-ethical conception of environmental responsibility that has its rational foundation in the philosophical paradigm of communicative rationality. A post-conventional, universalistic conception of co-responsibility is grounded by reflection on the actual situation of practising communicative rationality, and explained in terms of normative contents, inherent in human communication by speech. It is argued that the transfer
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