The Study of Agricultural Environmental Ethics: Rights of Nature Approach and Virtue Approach
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15520015
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Philosophy/Ethics
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| Research Institution | HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
HATAKENAKA Kazuo Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Education, associate professor, 大学院・教育学研究科, 助教授 (60243523)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2005
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2005)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
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| Keywords | environmental ethics / agricultural ethics / biosphere ethics / rights of nature / environmental virtue ethics / Max Scheler / 農業倫理 / 環境倫理 / 生命に対する畏敬の念 |
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| Research Abstract |
This collection of papers on agricultural environmental ethics consists of main papers (the part I〜IV), supplementary papers (the part V), and appendixes (the part VI). In the part II overviewed the following main subjects of environmental ethics in United States of America : (a)relationship between environmental ethics and applied ethics, (b)background and formation of environmental ethics, and (c)early controversy over environmental ethics etc. I examined rights of nature approach in the part II, and virtue approach to environmental problem in the part III. From these studies, in the part IV I summarized the main subjects of biosphere ethics, which consists of agricultural ethics, environmental ethics and bioethics, and tried to formulate a direction of study of this field. These subjects are the following ones : (a)safety of food, (b)exhaustion of agricultural resources, (c)destruction of environment and ecosystem, (d)factory farming and animal welfare, (e)monopoly of food production and (f) decrease of family farming. The subject matter of the part V is on biology and ethics, and the one of the part VI is on German philosopher Max Scheler's ethical thought.
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Report
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