広島大学大学院教育学研究科紀要. 第二部, 文化教育開発関連領域 Issue 50
published_at 2002-02-28

農業倫理・環境倫理・生命倫理 : 農業倫理学の論点は何か

Agricultural Ethics, Environmental Ethics, and Bioethics : the Major Issues of Agricultural Ethics
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Abstract
It is the aim of the paper is to make the major issues of agricultural ethics clear by comparing them with the ones of environmental ethics and bioethics. The main topics in this paper are following. 1. The major issues of the debate over agricultural ethics are (1) agricultural threats to public health and safety; (2) government responsibility for controlling agricultural resource depletion; (3) agricultural contributions to ecological disturbance; (4) government responsibility for preserving the family farm; (5) problems with factory farming and animal husbandry; and (6) monopolistic control of food production by agribusiness industries (Schrader=Frechette [1992] : pp.30-31). 2. The most important thoughts in environmental ethics are "the rights of nature", "intergenerational ethics" and "environmental justice". When we make an issue of agricultural ethics, we need to consider these thoughts. 3. Agriculture is fundamental to bioethics if bioethics is the ethics of "biosciences". The problems of "agricultural bioethics" arise from the (prospective) application of modern biotechnologies. So we also need to discuss about the issues of agricultural ethics from bioethical point of view.
Keywords
農業倫理
環境倫理
生命倫理
農業生命倫理
agricultural ethics
environmental ethics
bioethics
agricultural bioethics