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H. Odera Oruka Parental Earth ethics article In this article the concern is to examine and invalidate the assumptions of Garrett Harden’s “Life Boat Ethics”. Then a proposal is made for “Parental Earth Ethics” and its basic and derivative principles are given and defended. Parental Earth Ethics is treated as a basic philosophy underpinning global justice.

Parental Earth ethics

H. Odera Oruka

Quest: An International African Journal of Philosophy, vol. 7, no. 1, 1993, pp. 21–27

Abstract

In this article the concern is to examine and invalidate the assumptions of Garrett Harden’s “Life Boat Ethics”. Then a proposal is made for “Parental Earth Ethics” and its basic and derivative principles are given and defended. Parental Earth Ethics is treated as a basic philosophy underpinning global justice.

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