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Can a ‘Shared Morality’ become

an Ideational Trend in

Global Environmental Politics?

I will emphasise the importance of human relationships that can facilitate the cultivation of moral motivation in

groups of people that are open to working together for the

well-being of the natural environment

and our future generations.

Developing Environmental Ethics Workshops as a method to nurture morality

The reason for organizing the Environmental Ethics Workshops is to give participants the chance to discover that their shared values have positive implications for environmental protection and sustainable development.

CONCLUSIONS

I am working to:

• develop an effective strategy that will enable people to become aware of their moral judgments.

• provide them with the information necessarily to acquire specific moral values that concern environmental protection.

I hope that this exercise in applied moral theory will offer activists and policy makers alike grounds for

an alternative approach to meeting the challenge of natural resource scarcity and encouraging pro-environmental behaviour.

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The need for discussing

A SHARED MORALITY

We must discuss a shared environmental morality that people worldwide would take into consideration.

An intrinsically motivating judgment is determined by common sense and is easy to be recognized by the majority of people due to the general acceptance that this judgment is good in itself.

Individuals will take environmental action if they find their motivation in a set of moral judgments which are based on common sense.

Can a ‘Shared Morality’ become an Ideational Trend in

Global Environmental Politics?

THE PROCESS OF HUMAN ACTION II

THE PROCESS OF HUMAN ACTION I

* A belief/ moral judgement motivates when the agent has the disposition to be motivated.

THE EFFECT OF MORAL JUDGMENTS - MORAL MODE

Moral mode describes the human mode that is motivated by a moral judgment.

Moral judgement -> Moral Action

People need to be educated to follow their moral judgements that dictate them to take responsibility for their actions.

TRANSPARENCY IN RESEARCH

This research is not placed on the political level, but on a

social level of activism, where action is not motivated by political force, but by social encouragement.

ADOPTING AN EXTERNALIST POSITION

EXTERNALISM states that human behaviour is influenced by external factors we come across in our existence which can facilitate the realisation of our moral judgments.

CONTEXT

Why not think of morality as an instrument that can boost people’s motivation to take environmental action?

THE VALUE-ACTION GAP

Values might be a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition, for the ‘right’ behaviour, a sustainable behaviour.

Lavinia Ioana UDREA

l.i.udrea@keele.ac.uk

Philosophy PhD Candidate

School of Politics, Int'l Relations

& Philosophy

Keele University, UK

A MOTIVATIONAL INSTRUMENT

Moral judgment = intrinsically motivating belief which finds its origin in a standard of morality.

A moral judgment is concerned with what a person ought to do and is connected to a sense of moral responsibility.

In the cultivation of moral responsibility we will use moral judgments because of their practicability to predict human action.

The Environmental Citizen

An individual who follows his moral judgment will take into consideration the standard of morality which dictates a common sense way of acting that guarantees positive environmental outcomes into the future.