Ecocentrism: Resetting Baselines for Virtue Development

From a planetary perspective, industrialized humans have become unvirtuous and holistically destructive in comparison to 99% of human genus existence. Why? This paper draws a transdisciplinary explanation. Humans are social mammals who are born particularly immature with a lengthy, decades-long matu...

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Main Author: Narvaez, Darcia (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V [2020]
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2020, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 391-406
Further subjects:B Moral Sense
B Communal imagination
B Evolved developmental niche
B Nature connection
B Original virtue
B Evolved nest
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