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Climate change and hybrid ethics:
a review of four ethical theories
Mihae Ahn
October 26, 2011
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Global Climate Change highlights
a basic issue of Human Rights.
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Influential Moral Theories and Climate Change
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Influential Moral Theories and Climate Change
Utilitarianism
Kantianism
Confucianism
Taoism
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Why is climate change
a matter of ethics and justice?
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Why is climate change a matter of ethics, a matter of justice?
• Disproportionate Contribution
the scarce resource: the atmospheric capacity to absorb greenhouse gases without altering climatic system
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Why is climate change a matter of ethics, a matter of justice?
• Disproportionate Contribution
• Disproportionate Burdens
vulnerable populations in developing countries
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Why is climate change a matter of ethics, a matter of justice?
• Disproportionate Responsibilities
• Disproportionate Burdens
• Intergenerational Issue
future generations and climate change impacts
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Why is climate change a matter of ethics, a matter of justice?
• Disproportionate Responsibilities
• Disproportionate Burdens
• Intergenerational Issues
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Climate Change is mostly viewed as:
• a danger to the natural environment in the North (developed countries)
• a threat to human well-being in the South (developing countries)
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Influential Moral Theories and Climate Change
Utilitarianism
Kantianism
Confucianism
Taoism
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Utilitarianism
Kantianism
Confucianism
Taoism
Commonality ~> Universality
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Utilitarianism
• utility - crosses time and borders
•well-being of all human beings
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Utilitarianism Kantianism
Differenceconsequences of
actionsmotivation for actions
duty to act
Similarity universalityuniversality
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Taoism
• ecological world view
• the principle of coexistence
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Taoism UtilitarianismKantianism
Differencerelationship between humans and nature
human relationship with each other
Similarity global conception of ethicsglobal conception of ethics
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Confucianism
• self-cultivation
• cosmopolitan and ecological perspective
• mutuality, responsibility, obligation
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The Theories and Climate Change
Taoism and Confucianism
• legal instruments and enforcement mechanisms
• Confucianism’s self-cultivation
• Taoism’s ecological worldview
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The Theories and Climate Change
Utilitarianism
• the best consequences at the least cost
Kantianism
• the formula of universal law
• the formula of the end itself
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Commonality
• universality
•caring for all other human beings
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Influential Moral Theories and Climate Change
Utilitarianism
Kantianism
Confucianism
Taoism
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