Umwelt-Tugendethik: Die halbe Warheit
—Natur und Kultur 2005

"Umwelt-Tugendethik: Die halbe Warheit - Sie für das Ganze zu halten, ist aber gefährlich (Environmental Virtue Ethics: Half the Truth but Dangerous as a Whole)," in Natur und Kultur 6/1 (2005):93-112. Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/41098

German translation of "Environmental Virtue Ethics: Half the Truth but Dangerous as a Whole." in Ronald Sandler and Philip Cafaro, eds., Environmental Virtue Ethics. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005.

Virtue cannot be self-contained but must be in place. We actualize a uniquely human capacity for excellence when we respect non-human life. If this really comes from appreciating otherness, then such human virtue is tributary to value in other forms of life. If a virtue ethics is unable to disentwine human virtues from intrinsic values in nature, we have but a half truth, dangerous if taken for the whole.