The Challenge and main approaches to environmental ethics

1. Three areas of environmental ethics

1.1 Moral concern and self-interest

1.2 Ethics of resources

1.3 Animal ethics

1.4 Ethics of nature

1.5 To the argument of aesthetic contemplation

2. Three levels of environmental reasoning

2.1 Philosophical level

2.2 Political–legal level

2.3 Casuistic level

3. Main approaches to environmental ethics

3.1 Introduction: Moral care for nature

3.2 The anthropocentric view

3.3 The non-anthropocentric view

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