A Ethical Study Concering Action and Decision-Making in Global environmental Problems

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The main result obtained by this project is to give a foundation to guidelines of actions taken for environmental issues in terms of the ethical notion of value.The central theme of Kuwako is the nature of ethical theory that he investigated in his published book entitled 'The philosophy Gaseous Phase.' The keywords are such ones as 'body, ' 'environment, ' 'action, ' 'value, ' 'property, ' etc. In particular the study of Neo-Confucian Tradition in Chinese Philosophy revealed the essential relationship between the notions of property and environment. Kuwako has offered the notion of bodily configuration as a key to understand the fundamental correlation between humans and their environment.Suzuki has investigated not only in the nature of value judgments that work in the process of decision making in relation to the environmental issues, but also in the way how decisions depend upon value judgments in every occation.The Corroboration of Kuwako and Suzuki has made the point clear that we should reverse the direction of consideration taken by so called environmental ethics. We should not consider how to apply the notions such as happiness, rights and persons to environmental issues, but criticize these notions from the viewpoint of values that are understood in the correlation between humans and their environment. This is the most important achievement of this project, which made Kuwako and Suzuki confirm that they should continue to investigate this problem further.