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НОВА ЕКОЛОШКА ЕТИКА И ЗАШТИТА ЖИВОТНЕ СРЕДИНЕ
New Environmental Ethics and Environmental Protection

Author(s): Jelena Đorđević
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Универзитет у Нишу
Keywords: ecological ethics; environmental protection; anthropocentrism; ecocentrism;

Summary/Abstract: During XIX and even XX century there was a belief that technical progress is a value the shouldn't be never argued about nor controlled because its process has been happening in accordance with comprehension about position and relation of man and society to nature according to anthropocentrism; a man is in the center of the world and everything that is good for him, it is good for nature, too. This attritional is frequently acfleeted in increasing environmental crisis, which established policies have no solution. Therefore, there is upcoming environmental ethics-ecocentrism, with ecosystem in its focus. The man is no longer master of nature but just a being with incurred sense of responsibility for earth's life. Man's increased responsibility is derived from the fact that only human are been given ability to develop moral values.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 235-244
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Serbian