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Egoistic Love of the Nonhuman World? Biology and the Love Paradox
Tekijät: Aaltola Elisa
Kustantaja: Taylor & Francis
Julkaisuvuosi: 2023
Journal: Ethics, Policy and Environment
Vuosikerta: 26
Numero: 1
Aloitussivu: 86
Lopetussivu: 105
ISSN: 2155-0085
eISSN: 2155-0093
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2021.1885245
Verkko-osoite: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21550085.2021.1885245
Rinnakkaistallenteen osoite: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/52678999
Love of nonhuman animals and nature is often presumed to have positive moral implications: if we love elks or forests, we will also better appreciate their moral value and treat them with more respect and care. This paper investigates perhaps the most common variety of love – here termed ‘the biological definition of love’ – as applied to other animals and nature. Introducing the notion of ‘the love paradox’, it suggests that biological love of other animals and nature can also have deeply negative and anthropocentric moral consequences, due to the self-directedness and biases inherent to it. The need for more other-directed definitions of love is underlined.
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