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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Ethics & the Environment.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 4 (1999) through current issueLatest Articles: Ethics & the EnvironmentTWOProject MUSE®Ethics & the Environment1535-53061085-6633Latest articles in Ethics & the Environment. Feed provided by Project MUSE®“Snake-Worshipping Traditions of Kerala Through the Lens of Human-Nature Connection”
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976332
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In this paper, we study the motivations and sentiments associated with devotional snake worship in the South Indian state of Kerala, where the worship of snakes and snake deities is particularly widespread. We investigate whether the practices associated with snake worship include sentiments associated with environmental values and human-nature connectedness, or whether the interest and sentiments of snake-worship practitioners are confined to ritualistic practices in specific sacred groves. If snake worship is associated with broader environmental values and feelings of human-nature connectedness, and if the traditional practices are promoted and transmitted in ways that intend to preserve the traditions as well
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/57/image/coversmall“Snake-Worshipping Traditions of Kerala Through the Lens of Human-Nature Connection”2025-12-06text/htmlen-US“Snake-Worshipping Traditions of Kerala Through the Lens of Human-Nature Connection”2025-12-062025TWOProject MUSE®1170592026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-06“Isn’t Exploitation Bad Enough? On the Normative Dimension of Concepts Relating to the Use of Natural Resources”
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976333
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There are at least two senses in which “exploitation” is ordinarily used: one in relation to humans and the other in relation to nonhumans. In relation to humans, whether individuals or groups, exploitation typically refers to taking advantage of them or deriving benefits from their attributes. However, this does not necessarily imply something morally problematic. For instance, we might say we exploit our physician’s expertise in diagnosing our illnesses, or that a basketball team with very tall players exploits its size advantage to beat its opponent. We even talk positively about exploitation when we suggest that parents should exploit their children’s talents by encouraging them to excel in whatever they are
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/57/image/coversmall“Isn’t Exploitation Bad Enough? On the Normative Dimension of Concepts Relating to the Use of Natural Resources”2025-12-06text/htmlen-US“Isn’t Exploitation Bad Enough? On the Normative Dimension of Concepts Relating to the Use of Natural Resources”2025-12-062025TWOProject MUSE®1235452026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-06“Is Sustainable Development Possible? A Response from Ibuanyidanda Ontology”
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976334
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Development is like a double-edged sword, it provides a better life for humans, but it also exploits the natural environment by reducing its capacity for providing for our teeming population as well as the future generations. Because of the possible negative effects of development, there are mixed reactions surrounding the concept itself; some embrace and accept it, while others repudiate it both as a concept and as a project (Bisong 2016).This work has as its main aim, the formulation of ethical guidelines that would promote the sustainable handling of the environment. The work acknowledges the existence of a variety of ideas and theories aimed at resolving the environmental crisis. These ideas and theories
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/57/image/coversmall“Is Sustainable Development Possible? A Response from Ibuanyidanda Ontology”2025-12-06text/htmlen-US“Is Sustainable Development Possible? A Response from Ibuanyidanda Ontology”2025-12-062025TWOProject MUSE®660972026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-06“Towards Ecological World-Making: Bringing Hannah Arendt and Malcom Ferdinand Together”
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976335
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The “eco” in “ecology” comes from the Greek word oikos, which means “a house” or more generally “a dwelling place,” as well as “a household” (Lidell, n.d.). The “-logy” in “ecology” refers to logos—an almost notoriously ambiguous term, with possible translations including “reason,” “language” or “speech.” What I want to emphasize here, though, is that the noun logos comes from the verb legein, which, in the most general sense, means “to put things together,” which is to say—to create connections, or simply to relate (Cavarero 2005, 33). This opens the possibility of thinking about ecology as a practice, as well as a theory, of relating through which a place becomes a dwelling. But if that is the case, then the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/57/image/coversmall“Towards Ecological World-Making: Bringing Hannah Arendt and Malcom Ferdinand Together”2025-12-06text/htmlen-US“Towards Ecological World-Making: Bringing Hannah Arendt and Malcom Ferdinand Together”2025-12-062025TWOProject MUSE®755712026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-06“The Capitalist Ethic of the Kleptocene and the Subversion of the Doctrine of Double Effect”
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976336
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According to the doctrine of double effect (hereafter DDE), it is sometimes permissible to allow or even cause a foreseeable harm to occur in the interest of producing a greater good or just end. Consider, for example, the bombing of a weapons depot in the middle of a city during war time that assuredly will result in the death of some civilians but will diminish the enemy’s capacity to make war. Those responsible for the bombing know there will be non-combatant casualties but, given reliable intelligence and an objective review of alternatives, reason that many more civilian lives will likely be spared if the conflict can be brought to a speedy and decisive conclusion (McIntyre 2023). Hence, a double effect: one
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/57/image/coversmall“The Capitalist Ethic of the Kleptocene and the Subversion of the Doctrine of Double Effect”2025-12-06text/htmlen-US“The Capitalist Ethic of the Kleptocene and the Subversion of the Doctrine of Double Effect”2025-12-062025TWOProject MUSE®1383812026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-06Index to Volume 30
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“Liberal Environmentalism Without Capitalism’s Endless Growth” Edward Andrew Greetis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1–31“Sentience: From Capacity to Mode of Being” Patrizia Setola. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33–63“Nussbaum’s Critique of Rawls on Animals” Benjamin Elmore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65–83“Reframing Environmental Ethics: Embracing the Cenozoic Community for Multispecies Justice”Andrea Natan Feltrin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85–106“The Meaning of Different Languages and What Does a Recognition of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/57/image/coversmallIndex to Volume 302025-12-06text/htmlen-USIndex to Volume 302025-12-062025TWOProject MUSE®35172026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-06