Solidarity: Does the Modern Catholic Rights Tradition have Anything to Offer Environmental Virtue Ethics?

Within the last decade those familiar with environmental ethics have witnessed a resurgence of environmental virtue ethics. According to Louke van Wensveen, ecological virtue language is "rapidly growing" and "represents a distinct moral discourse with an internal unity and logic"...

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Main Author: Butkus, Russell (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Center for Environmental Philosophy, University of North Texas [2015]
In: Environmental ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 169-186
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