Closing the Open Sea: Development of Fishery Management in Four Icelandic Fisheries
Author(s)
Matthiasson, Thorolfur
Abstract
The article outlines a comprehensive environmental ethics in three parts. The first, short section defines the author’s approach to moral theory: ethics as hermeneutics of moral experience, distinguishing and clarifying as clearly as possible the various aspects of the problem situation in which one has to act. A second, more extended section provides a historico-philosophical critique of the environmental crisis with special attention to distinctive cultural and religious dimensions. The final section appeals for the renewal of nearly forgotten dimensions of life in our activist culture.
