Concept of moral relationship between humans and the environment in William James’s view
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Environmental Ethics, Humans and Environment, William JamesAbstract
This research article aims to examine William James’s concept of moral relationship between humans and the environment. James is an American philosopher and psychologist. The research is a qualitative research gathering data form James’s books and essays and other relevant secondary works. The study is done through the concept of environmental ethics by analysing moral relationship between humans and things and summarize by descriptive research method. The study results revealed that this universe is a pluralistic, which constituted by several individual units. In ontological status. In other words, all living-things and non-living things are equal, it’s only one part of this pluralistic universes. Individuals freely exist without being possesed or occupied by the others. Even these individuals are independent, it linked to one another by some natural laws and then become a great relationship network. There are both diversity and unity in the universe. Humans and any other things that exist in this physical world are part of one another by its interconnected relationship. Thus, things coexist in the way of holistic moral relationship.
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