Environmental Ethics: Callikott as Leopold’s Successor


Published: Apr 4, 2026
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environmental ethics Leopold Callicott
Αναστάσιος E. Πανταζής
Abstract

With Leopold’s “Land Ethic” environmental ethics began its intellectual journey toward contemporary reality. J. Baird Callicott is considered its ardent supporter and successor. What they tried to highlight is a non-anthropocentric philosophy of the Environment, based on the rights of all living and non-living organisms, with an emphasis on the protection and balance of the Biosphere, as well as its ability to reproduce and perpetuate itself. Their views have come to be characterized as “holistic” because they perceive the Earth as a whole, as one large biocommunity. Leopold gave us a general and somewhat vague position on this in “The Ethics of the Earth” which Callicott and other followers, such as the representatives of Deep Ecology, undertook to concretize and expand. In fact, Callicott emerged as the most ardent supporter of Leopold’s views and extended his thinking and positions.

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