Michael Hannis, <i>Freedom and Environment: Autonomy, Human Flourishing and the Political Philosophy of Sustainability</i>

Stephens, Piers H.G.

doi:10.3197/096327116x14736981715823

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“…On the level of the individual, further research could tackle the question whether, or if so how, individual experiences of nature can lead to an environmental virtue ethics (e.g. Cafaro & Sandler, 2005;Hannis, 2016) or be a key to solving the climate ethics motivation problem (Birnbacher, 2009)? On the level of the community, it could be fruitful to analyse, how individual natural experiences can be made intersubjectively accessible and thus used in political debates?…”

Section: On the Way To A Deep Anthropo-related Environmental Ethicsmentioning

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Normative implications of ecophenomenology. Towards a deep anthropo-related environmental ethics

Meyer

2023

Environmental Values

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Corporeality of human beings should be taken seriously and be included in their self-understanding as the ‘nature we are ourselves’. Such an ecophenomenological account has important normative implications. Firstly, I argue that the instrumental value of nature can be particularly well justified based on an ecophenomenological approach. Secondly, sentience is inseparable from corporeality. Therefore, insofar as it is a concern of the ecophenomenological approach to take corporeality and its implications seriously, sentient beings deserve direct moral consideration. Thirdly, it can strengthen the so-far underestimated category of eudaimonic values of nature, which can be best developed through an ecophenomenological reconstruction. Taken together, ecophenomenology is vital for environmental ethics and helps us to leave behind its widespread ‘centrism’. Ecophenomenology should therefore, both methodically and philosophically, be included in the discussion of environmental ethical problems.

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Section: On the Way To A Deep Anthropo-related Environmental Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Normative implications of ecophenomenology. Towards a deep anthropo-related environmental ethics

Meyer

2023

Environmental Values

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“…Freedom and environmental sustainability are two concepts that are closely linked (Hannis, 2015). Sustainable development is defined as "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (United Nations Brundtland Commission, 1987).…”

Section: Freedom and Environment Protection The Theoretical Debatementioning

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“…The role of environmental sustainability in limiting economic growth was first discussed in the aftermath of the Limits to Growth report (Meadows, et al, 1972;Hannis, 2015). Leading economists widely recognized the depletion of non-renewable resources as a factor constraining long-term economic growth (Solow, 1974;Stiglitz, 1974;Hartwick, 1978).…”

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Environmental protection or economic growth? The effects of preferences for individual freedoms

Čábelková

Smutka

Martin

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Environmental protection is often seen in conflict with individual freedom and economic growth. The proponents of environmental protection suggest that the environment is a global resource that must be protected for future generations, even at the expense of economic growth and individual freedoms. The opponents claim that environmental protection should not come at the expense of individual rights and liberties, economic growth included. This paper studies the associations between public preferences for environmental protection, economic growth, and individual freedoms in eleven post-soviet countries on a representative dataset (N = 20006, age 18+, M ± SD: 46,04 ± 17,07; 58% women, 46,8% upper education). Methodologically we rely on correlations, principal component analysis, and ordinal regression analyses. The results suggest that preferences for most personal freedoms studied predict environmental protection and economic growth preferences. In addition, preferences for civil rights, rights for democracy, gender equality, income inequality, and the low role of the army in politics predicted higher preferences for environmental protection and economic growth. Interestingly, the government’s right to video surveillance in public areas, though diminishing personal freedoms in terms of anonymity, predicted higher preferences for environmental protection and economic growth. The importance of God in lives proved to increase preferences for environmental protection but was negatively related to preferences for economic growth. We suggest the government communicate the need for environmental protection as a part of the rights for individual freedom to live in a clean environment.

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“…Likewise, in environmental political thought, it is often argued that limits to consumption, production or procreation make one in the end more free, in meaningful ways, or differently free, if one renames the two as quantitative 'option freedom' and qualitative 'action freedom' (Pettit 1999; for similar interpretations of freedom as a qualitative property, see e.g. Dagger 1997;Hannis 2016;Lambacher 2016;Bader 2018;Beresford 2020). In this vein, Lambacher (2016, 392) argues that 'green freedom is about contributing to a quality of life that people help to create, for themselves and others' (his italics).…”

Section: Freedom and The Value Of Freedommentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability, democracy and the value of freedom

Wissenburg¹

2021

The Routledge Handbook of Democracy and Sustainability

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Michael Hannis, Freedom and Environment: Autonomy, Human Flourishing and the Political Philosophy of Sustainability

Cited by 4 publications

References 10 publications

Normative implications of ecophenomenology. Towards a deep anthropo-related environmental ethics

Normative implications of ecophenomenology. Towards a deep anthropo-related environmental ethics

Environmental protection or economic growth? The effects of preferences for individual freedoms

Sustainability, democracy and the value of freedom

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