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With the emergence of an ethical concern for the environment in the Western tradition, the new question that called for some discussion was about the limits of the “moral community”: what class or group of beings we ought to consider as having moral worth and towards which we have obligations to act. There were debates of an ethical nature about the moral status of the mentally retarded, the senile, infants, the comatose (humans struck by disease in states of coma); but till recent times, ethics was exclusively concerned with humans.
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© 1998 Padmasiri de Silva
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de Silva, P. (1998). Buddhist Environmental Ethics. In: Environmental Philosophy and Ethics in Buddhism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26772-9_5
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