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This document discusses three environmental writers - Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson - as exemplars of an environmental virtue ethics approach. It argues that their works emphasize cultivating human excellence through engagement with nature, highlight the importance of placing economic concerns in a proper subordinate role to overall human flourishing, and view environmental protection as being in our enlightened self-interest. The document examines how these three figures can help dev

Author

Leandro Ribeiro Palhares Palhares

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EN