Attending to Nature: Empathetic Engagement with the More than Human World
Ethics & the Environment, Vol. 14, No. 2.
By Lori Gruen
Val Plumwood urged us to attend to earth others in non-dualistic ways.
In this essay I suggest that such attention be promoted through what I
call "engaged empathy." Engaged empathy involves critical attention to
the conditions that undermine the well being or flourishing of those to
whom empathy is directed and this requires moral agents to attend to
things they might not have otherwise. Engaged empathy requires gaining
wisdom and perspective and, importantly, motivates the empathizer to
act ethically.
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