Published: 2016-09-30

Two ethics, double morality

Janusz A. Majcherek
Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae
Section: Humanistic Foundations of Environmental Protection
https://doi.org/10.21697/seb.2016.14.3.04

Abstract

According to the declaration made by many theoreticians of environmental ethics, their purpose is to do moral extension, i.e., to expand moral duties and standards to non-human living entities. If it means including the biosphere into the same moral normative system as is valid in anthroposphere, such a declaration is in fact not realized. Environmental ethics offers normative systems not only different, but often contradictory to human ethics. These differences and sometimes contradictions make a great challenge for a moral subject, always a human being. The question is if it is possible to be equally obedient to such different or even contradictory rules, and construct a double or even dual conscience, according to such double morality.

Keywords:

environmental ethics, biocentrism, moral conscience

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Majcherek, J. A. (2016). Two ethics, double morality. Studia Ecologiae Et Bioethicae, 14(3), 69–87. https://doi.org/10.21697/seb.2016.14.3.04

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