BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260408T004947Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20140903T120000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20140903T140000 SUMMARY:Environmental Values and Fitting Attitudes UID:20260408T005131Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-r5qzs TZID:Australia/Sydney LOCATION:Plenty Road and Kingsbury Drive\, Bundoora\, Australia DESCRIPTION:

In our phenomenological experience of \;value\, we think that our \;values \;are in some sense real features of the world\, and not merely there for us. In \;environmental \;ethics\, many unsuccessful attempts have been made to explain and justify \;environmental \;values \;along these lines. In this paper\, I explore a promising recent proposal which argues that our \;environmental \;values \;(and our \;values \;generally) are features of the world that merit a \;fitting \;or appropriate response from us. Despite its advantages over earlier theories\, I will argue that this proposal gives us an insufficient grasp of the notion of merit\, and is prone to serious worries of cultural relativism. Instead\, following work done by McDowell\, Wiggins\, and others\, I explore a notion of merit grounded in the notion of the good life for humans. In my view\, we can make sense of the notion of merit by looking at the \;use \;we put our \;value \;attributions to as part of \;our own \;attempts to answer the fundamental ethical question\, &lsquo\;What sort of person should I be?&rsquo\; And our answers here can be improved by thinking about the \;values \;that practically wise people recognise\, and the role that these play in their living excellent lives"

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