The Necessity of the New Rise of the Eco Ethic
Journal
Studia Bioethica
Date Issued
2016
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Abstract
Modern civilization is in crisis. The gaps are numerous and deep!
Along with new and great scientific discoveries, the humanity at the same time
isn't increased. This led us to moral disorientation in various areas of life. In the
late 60th and early 70th of the last century, the first premonitory signs of this
development showed especially encouraged by the threat of environmental
pollution. Human unlimited development showed the first negative impact on the
world in which we live, the nature that surrounds us. The modern man becomes
more aware of fact that it can destroy the flying boat, the house in which lives. The
text deals with the increased need for answering two basic questions according
to the new area of research in ethics, i.e. human behavior towards nature. The
first question is do we need indeed, for resolving this problem, a scientific strategy postulated on the basics of ecology as a science of the environment and
transformed into social and political decision (as biopolitics on international and
national level) or do we need a new ethics for the environment that will be
established as a scientific strategy and therefore as a biopolitics? The second issue
concerns whether the nature and environmental protection are interesting for us
only on an instrumental level or we believe that nature has intrinsic value, so it
can exist even without man?
Along with new and great scientific discoveries, the humanity at the same time
isn't increased. This led us to moral disorientation in various areas of life. In the
late 60th and early 70th of the last century, the first premonitory signs of this
development showed especially encouraged by the threat of environmental
pollution. Human unlimited development showed the first negative impact on the
world in which we live, the nature that surrounds us. The modern man becomes
more aware of fact that it can destroy the flying boat, the house in which lives. The
text deals with the increased need for answering two basic questions according
to the new area of research in ethics, i.e. human behavior towards nature. The
first question is do we need indeed, for resolving this problem, a scientific strategy postulated on the basics of ecology as a science of the environment and
transformed into social and political decision (as biopolitics on international and
national level) or do we need a new ethics for the environment that will be
established as a scientific strategy and therefore as a biopolitics? The second issue
concerns whether the nature and environmental protection are interesting for us
only on an instrumental level or we believe that nature has intrinsic value, so it
can exist even without man?
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