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Normative implications of ecophenomenology. Towards a deep anthropo-related environmental ethics

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Corporeality of human beings should be taken seriously and be included in their self-understanding as the ‘nature we are ourselves’. Such an ecophenomenological account has important normative implications. Firstly, I argue that the instrumental value of nature can be particularly well justified based on an ecophenomenological approach. Secondly, sentience is inseparable from corporeality. Therefore, insofar as it is a concern of the ecophenomenological approach to take corporeality and its implications seriously, sentient beings deserve direct moral consideration. Thirdly, it can strengthen the so-far underestimated category of eudaimonic values of nature, which can be best developed through an ecophenomenological reconstruction. Taken together, ecophenomenology is vital for environmental ethics and helps us to leave behind its widespread ‘centrism’. Ecophenomenology should therefore, both methodically and philosophically, be included in the discussion of environmental ethical problems.

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  • Kira Meyer, 2024. "Normative implications of ecophenomenology. Towards a deep anthropo-related environmental ethics," Environmental Values, , vol. 33(3), pages 279-295, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envval:v:33:y:2024:i:3:p:279-295
    DOI: 10.1177/09632719231174086
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