The ethics of nature and the nature of ethics

This volume explores questions which emerge from considering the relationship between nature and ethics through philosophical, theological, ethical and environmental lenses.

It will examine the nature (understood as essence or character) of ethics itself and whether nature (understood as natural world) has embedded in it a moral code, as well as examining how particular ethical/theological worldviews influence our treatment of nature.

Is there an abstract, objective moral code in nature?

If so, how do we gain access to this code of ethics?

Is it only accessible through revelation, as in some religious traditions, or is this code of ethics more generally accessible to humanity?

Indeed, does such an objective notion of ethics exist; could it be that ethics are a natural and subjective development?

Is ethics a feature of nature, or have we invented it?