Umweltethik und die Realität des Umwelthandelns am Beispiel Klimaschutz

This paper discusses the discrepancy of attitude and behaviour in an environmental protection from the point of view of philosophy. Coming from the classical thesis of moral philosophy, that someone who infringes the ‘good’ has no secure knowledge, it examines how ethical arguments can contribute to get such a knowledge. The result of this study is that the logical power of persuasion alone is not able to acquire such a knowledge; and in order to obtain practical efficiency, ethical arguments should converse to emotional stratifications of personality. Based on the examination of positive feelings for nature, the paper discusses how this can happen.