Abstract: Ethics is the philosophical study of morality. Ethics can be viewed as understanding the foundation and structure of morality regarding how we should live. The term “applied ethics” is used in practical sense to find moral solutions to the problems in society and it is an attempt to solve, or rather to point out problems in professional ethics. Environmental ethics is relatively a new branch in applied ethics. In environmental ethics, all the questions are raised in the context of global level. Therefore, environmental ethics is concerned with public morality or societies actions over nature. The questions raised in environmental ethics are having a global character. These questions demands actions not from one individual or group of individual as in the case of most inquiries in professional ethics. This paper is an attempt to capture the evolution, development and prospects of Environmental Ethics in the contemporary society.
Keywords: Environmental Ethics, Normative Ethics, Applied Ethics, Environmental Crisis.
Title: Progress and Prospects of Environmental Ethics in the Contemporary Society
Author: Dr. P. Sivakumar
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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