Wpływ moralności na przeciwdziałanie zmianom klimatycznym

• Main Author: Thomas Pölzer
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie 2020-12-01
• Series: Edukacja Etyczna
• Subjects: error theory; moral motivation; abolitionism; conservationism; fictionalism; climate ethics; moral psychology
• Online Access: https://edukacjaetyczna.pl/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2.pdf

Suppose you are a moral error theorist, i.e., you believe that no moral judgment is true. What, then, ought you to do with regard to our common practice of making such judgments? Determining the usefulness of our ordinary moral practice is exacerbated by the great number and variety of moral judgments. In-depth case studies may thus be more helpful in clarifying error theory’s practical im- plications than reflections about morality in general. In this article, I pursue this strategy with regard to a particularly important matter, namely climate change. First, I establish general conditions for when a moral judgment has any effect on those who accept it. Second, I show that the judgment that individuals in industrialized countries are morally obliged to act against climate change does not fulfill these conditions, and is thus neither beneficial nor harmful. Finally, I sketch several strategies for increasing people’s non-moral motivation to act against climate. This is the polish translation of book chapter by Thomas Pölzler, „The Effects of Morality on Acting against Climate Change,” published in: The End of Morality: Taking Moral Eliminativism Seriously, ed. Richard Garner, Richard Joyce, New York: Routledge 2018.