authors: Nataliіa Anatska, Iryna Kravchenko, Vadim Penyuk
Urgency of the research is determined by the need to identify and study the foundations of environmental ethics, in which the absolute value of life is a primary principle oriented to its normative and regulatory imperatives, value-categorical attitudes, moral and ethical norms. In this regard, it is noted that the identified limits of progress on the one hand clearly revealed the limit possibilities of our planet, and on the other hand, they showed in a new light the ethical problems of our time, since our actions are able to overcome the damage caused to the natural environment in order to preserve human being. First of all, it is about an ecological approach, and therefore, about ecological ethics. So, any research on issues of responsible attitude to natural existence has scientific novelty.
Target setting. The need to search for new value orientations and moral and ethical norms of society regulation became obvious, the discussion of which moved to the plane of environmental ethics. It was determined that ecohumanistic principles, consciously chosen by man as ecological values and ideals, which become the basis of modern ecological ethics, acquire the greatest importance.
Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. It is impossible to imagine solving modern environmental problems without studying the problems of environmental ethics and moral philosophy. Publications on environmental ethics and ethics of responsibility are available from H. Jonas, O. Leopold, and A. Schweitzer. They create an ontological ethics of values, where existence and preservation of existence occupy a central place. The concept of preservation of existence is supported by: A. Schopenhauer, A. Schweitzer, T. Mayer. Problems of the interaction of environmental ethics and science are put forward by O. Geffe, R. Holfeld, Y. Rau, I. Vogel and others. Ukrainian philosophers explore the principles of responsible politics, environmental ethics, philosophical problems of environmental education, philosophy of education: T. Hardashuk, O. Bazaluk, V. Baranivskyi, H. Berehova, V. Gur, A. Yermolenko, Z. Samchuk, M. Kiselyov, V. Krysachenko, K. Korsak, T. Chornoshtan and others. But regardless the significant contribution of philosophers, questions of environmental ethics, ethics for environmental education always need consideration.
The research objective. Show the necessity of the concept of ecovitalism for environmental ethics and its methodological foundations. Consider the formation of environmental ethics on the basis of the absolute value of life, which has an impact on the formation of life-value orientations of modern people, the implementation of the main values of environmental ethics in practice. Realize that the future of humanity depends on whether it realizes the need for environmental ethics, environmental responsibility, ecologically appropriate behavior to preserve life on our planet.
The statement of basic materials. The article examines the concept of ecovitalism, which is the basis of environmental ethics, primarily as an ecological support for life, focused not simply on the preservation of its natural foundations, but on the historically formed social attitude to nature as a value. At the same time, human activity, as a morally regulated life activity, is not based on purely natural determinations, but in a new quality of the natural-historical process, the basis of which is not nature itself, but the value of nature as a derivative of social progress. This gives grounds for asserting that the absolute value of life has becomes the main basis of modern environmental ethics. It is shown that environmental ethics is an important aspect in the formation of environmental education and creates new values for the preservation of human existence.
Conclusions. So, despite the development of a more realistic way of understanding and implementing the main values of environmental ethics, which were expressed in a number of documents, representatives of the new public found the need to update the problems of a humanistic attitude to the world, which showed the importance of revising the essential characteristics of environmental ethics. The global problems of the modern ecological crisis can only be solved systematically. And because of that, the problem is to give this process a socio-humanistic orientation. After all, it is difficult to imagine the solution of modern environmental problems without turning to environmental ethics and environmental education.
Keywords: ecovitalism; environmental ethics; the absolute value of life; environmental education, nature; humanism; responsibility; moral values, global environmental crisis
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