Cafaro's Environmental Virtue Ethic Study: A Case Study of Taiwan's Population and Environment Issues

Autor: Yu-Chen Chou, 周昱辰
Rok vydání: 2019
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 107
Philip Cafaro's environmental virtue ethic goal is how limit consumption could improve our life. To realize the worldview of Cafaro's environmental virtue ethic, we need to know the philosophical view of his environmental virtues and environmental vices, and how his goal could improve our life. The approach taken in this study is to use his environmental virtue ethic theories to face Taiwan's population and environment issues. Therefore, this study will first analyze Taiwan's population and environment issues, taking air pollution, river pollution and overdevelopment as examples. Then this study will discuss the majors of environmental vices, environmental wisdom, and the limit consumption theory of Cafaro’s environmental virtue ethic, and then reflect his theories above. By reflect Cafaro’s theories, this study claims that improving our life is not enough to consider only limit consumption. It is necessary to consider the impact of population. Therefore, at the end of this study will face population and environment issues in Taiwan by strengthening Cafaro’s limit consumption theory, and then provide Taiwan’s education and policies in accordance with the spirit of Cafaro’s environmental virtue ethic.
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