Responsibility and the Ethics of Ecological Restoration

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Abstract

This paper argues that the concept of responsibility can and should ground an ethics of ecological restoration. It starts with William Jordan’s concept of restoration, namely the creation of mutually beneficial human-nature relationships. It builds a concept of responsibility using the works of Hans Jonas and Martin Drenthen, understood as a correlate of our technological capacity, as well as a relationship to the possibility of meaningfulness today and in the indefinite future. It is argued that we are responsible in a deep sense for engaging in projects of restoration in order to ensure the survival of embodied meaningfulness in the world.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)255-274
JournalEnvironmental Philosophy
Volume14
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

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