![]() Environmental philosophy includes in its scope all the core discourses of philosophy: metaphysics, our assumptions about the basic stuff and structure of things epistemology, how we come to know and understand nature and how different epistemologies reveal different aspects of the natural world aesthetics, the patterning that may or may not be taken to confer meaning or value on nature and ethics, the morality of our treatment of living things and systems. ![]() ![]() The question whether nature and environment are useful concepts at all, or merely contribute to attitudes that pathologise our relations with our world, is also considered. Environmental philosophy examines our relation, as human beings, to nature or our natural environment: it reviews our philosophical understandings of nature and our conception of nature’s value and entitlements it explores how we are to live with and in nature and to what degree nature is or is not implicated in our own human identity.
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