TY - JOUR
T1 - The virtues of gardening: A relational account of Environmental virtues
AU - Kallhoff, Angela
AU - Schörgenhumer, M.
N1 - Funding Information:
* Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Universitätsstraße 7 (NIG), 1010 Vienna, Austria; emails: [email protected] and [email protected]. Kallhoff’s research areas are ethics, political philosophy, and applied ethics with special emphasis on applied ethics. Schörgenhumer’s research areas are environmental aesthetics and ethics, including plant ethics. Research for this paper was funded by the FWF project “New Directions in Plant Ethics” (P27173), https://plantethics.univie.ac.at/about. 1Thomas Hill, Jr., “Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments,” in Autonomy and Self-Respect (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 104. 2 Ibid., p. 112. 3 Ibid., p. 113. 4 Rosalind Hursthouse, “Environmental Virtue Ethics,” in Rebecca L. Walker and Philip J. Ivanhoe, eds., Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press): 155–71. 5 Paul W. Taylor, Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986). 6 Hursthouse, “Environmental Virtue Ethics,” p. 162. 7 Philip Cafaro, Thoreau’s Living Ethics: Walden and the Pursuit of Virtue (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2004). 8 A list of about 170 environmental virtues can be found in Louke van Wensween, Dirty Virtues: The Emergence of Environmental Virtue Ethics (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2000), pp. 163–67.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Environmental virtues have become an essential ingredient in an ethics of nature. An account of environmental virtues can contribute to this ethics of nature by exploring the virtues that the gardener displays in cultivating and caring for plants. An approach that relates to the virtues of gardening is helpful in explicating a more general approach in a certain domain of interaction with nature. Good gardeners get involved in processes of natural growth and decay, they are aware of their position within the garden, and they endure ambivalences in nature. This relational account of the virtues of gardening is also exemplary in processes of active co-designing of nature and in landscaping.
AB - Environmental virtues have become an essential ingredient in an ethics of nature. An account of environmental virtues can contribute to this ethics of nature by exploring the virtues that the gardener displays in cultivating and caring for plants. An approach that relates to the virtues of gardening is helpful in explicating a more general approach in a certain domain of interaction with nature. Good gardeners get involved in processes of natural growth and decay, they are aware of their position within the garden, and they endure ambivalences in nature. This relational account of the virtues of gardening is also exemplary in processes of active co-designing of nature and in landscaping.
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U2 - 10.5840/enviroethics2017121410
DO - 10.5840/enviroethics2017121410
M3 - Article
SN - 2153-7895
VL - 39
SP - 193
EP - 210
JO - Environmental Ethics
JF - Environmental Ethics
IS - 2
ER -