Humanism, Biocentrism, and the Problem of Justification

Ethics, Policy and Environment 20 (3):243-246 (2017)
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Curren and Metzger’s work makes a bold, normative claim: The moral goal of sustainability is human flourishing. Their eudaimonic theory has as its summum bonum ‘living well’ according to the fundam...

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