What is it about?
This article is about developing an approach to ecological ethics that focuses on virtues (and vices) and is informed by the Christian tradition.
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Why is it important?
We must shift our attention to being earthkeepers and developing an approach to ethics that emphasizes virtues is one way to cultivate caretakers of our home planet.
Perspectives
In the field of ethics we must not only talk about duties and rights and consequences, but also virtues and especially those virtues that allow us and all the creatures and places in the natural world to flourish.
Dr Steven C Bouma-Prediger
Hope College
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This page is a summary of: What kind of person would do something like that? A Christian ecological virtue ethic, International Journal of Christianity & Education, November 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2056997115615580.
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