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This paper aims to develop a collective virtue approach to agricultural ethics, building on a critical assessment of the agrarian tradition. It is argued that agriculture provides examples where the collective virtues approach is particularly attractive. For such virtues to be applicable, the entities to which they are ascribed need to satisfy certain conditions so that they can be regarded as conglomerates. Furthermore, a collective virtue ethics approach in agriculture could be compatible with both Aristotelian (teleological) accounts of virtues and non-teleological (e.g. sentimentalist) ones, and with different forms of organizing agricultural production.
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Sandin, P. (2012). A collective virtue approach to agricultural ethics. In: Potthast, T., Meisch, S. (eds) Climate change and sustainable development. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen. https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-753-0_20
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