Assuming that the present ecological crisis may be viewed first of all as "a morał problem", we can submit a proposition that an attempt to overcome this crisis should start within "the human inside"; the question of an individual (social) attitude to nature should be perceived in terms of moral good and evil, of duty and responsibility. Presenting basic types of ecological ethics, the author emphasizes that ecological conscience constitutes the essence of the ethics in question. Conscience is here understood as a "personal", inward arbiter that is supposed to decide — on the basis of ecological knowledge and bearing in mind responsibility for preserving the biosphere — about the value and moral validity of actions and decisions that are taken. The author, basing upon the analysis of denotation of a normatively understood ecological consciousness suggests that ecological conscience integrates meanings, values, and norms of ecological consciousness into acts of will and hierarchy of moral values of a human being.
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