Compassionate Coexistence
Personizing the Land in Aldo Leopold’s Land-Ethic
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https://doi.org/10.55613/jeet.v24i3.33Abstract
Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic (1949) was one of the first clarion calls announcing a new era of thinking about Nature, but it is obviously difficult for the human race to turn conceptual insights into action. I propose that the missing link lies in acknowledging non-human personhood. If we allow ourselves to “personize” Leopold’s Land, we enable moral behavior towards the world as a whole. In this paper, I build on Leopold and develop the acknowledgement of non-human personhood as the logical and necessary next step in his Ethical Sequence.
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Compassionate Coexistence: Personizing the Land in Aldo Leopold’s Land-Ethic. (2014). Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies, 24(3), 60-64. https://doi.org/10.55613/jeet.v24i3.33
