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Naturverantwortung, Humanität und Lebensehrfurcht von Kant zu Schweitzer
Responsibility for Nature, Humanity and Reverence for Life from Kant to Schweitzer

Author(s): Hans Lenk
Subject(s): Metaphysics, Ethics / Practical Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: Responsibility for humans; duties regarding natural creatures; extended responsibilities; “concrete humanity;

Summary/Abstract: Ethical/moral responsibility between humans and duties/obligations for other creatures after Albert Schweitzer’s ethics of “Reverence for Life”. Extended responsibility for “Nature” in general and practice – in particular for encroaching on and intruding in ecosystems facing the extant climate crisis and ecological dangers. What do the imperatives of “concrete humanity” or practical “humaneness” mean – and how can we realize and, more important, materialize these aims and values? Some practice-oriented theses are sketched out.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 28
  • Page Range: 5-46
  • Page Count: 43
  • Language: German
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