Psychedelics and environmental virtues
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چکیده
The urgent need for solutions to critical environmental challenges is well attested, but often problems are understood as fundamentally collective action problems. However, solve these problems, there also a change individual behavior. Hence, pressing inculcate in individuals the virtues – of character that relate our place world. We propose way meeting this need, by judicious, safe, and controlled administration “classic” psychedelic drugs form moral bio-enhancement. Recent evidence shows psychedelics can be given safely environments, induce vivid experiences unity connectedness. These experiences, turn, durably increase feelings nature-relatedness pro-environmental behaviors. Therefore, we argue responsible use reliably catalyze development key virtue known living place. This “master virtue” subsumes qualities respect nature, proper humility, aesthetic wonder awe. Our account advances debate introducing relevant practical proposal, enhancement providing much-needed conceptual framework.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Psychology
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1465-394X', '0951-5089']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2057290