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Environmental Values (journal)
Hill, Thomas, Jr. “Finding Value in Nature.” Environmental Values 15, no. 3 (2006): 331–41. doi:10.3197/096327106778226266.
This paper explores the idea that a proper valuing of natural environments is essential to (and not just a natural basis for) a broader human virtue that might be called ‘appreciation of the good’. This kind of valuing can explain, without any commitment to a metaphysics of intrinsic values, how and why it is good to value certain natural phenomena for their own sakes. The objection that such an approach is excessively human-centred is considered and rebutted.
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