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- Moula, Payam
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Environmental virtue ethics - Big hype for nothing?
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In: Know Your Food. - The Netherlands : Wageningen Academic Publishers. - 9789086868131 - 9789086862641 ; , s. 101-106
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Environmental virtue ethics has grown to be a vital part of environmental philosophy and with regard to agricultural and food ethics virtues are proposed to guide us on how to manage our agriculture and food production. In this paper I will critically examine one central question for environmental virtue ethics: Do we need new virtues in light of our environmental challenges? By investigating the virtue 'being rightly oriented toward nature' as proposed by Hursthouse I highlight: (1) that many of the new proposed virtues are different from the old virtues in the sense that they are not justified as virtues by the notion of eudaimonia; I argue (2) that the question of whether new virtues are needed demands a specification of what 'need' the new virtues are supposed to address.
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- Sandin, Per, et al.
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Simple plain fare or exquisite eating - Is simplicity really a consumer virtue?
- 2015
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In: Know Your Food. - The Netherlands : Wageningen Academic Publishers. - 9789086868131 - 9789086862641 ; , s. 249-253
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper discusses the proposed consumer virtue of material simplicity, as advocated by Joshua Colt Gambrel and Philip Cafaro. We argue that the introduction of simplicity as a virtue is unnecessary and arbitrary. We also argue that there are reasons to doubt whether simplicity is really a virtue, and using counterexamples, we argue that the arguments presented by Gambrel and Cafaro are unconvincing in this respect. Finally, some considerations for further research are suggested.
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