Panneerselvam, S.2019-09-252019-09-252015-08-1420121173-2571http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/225111" witnessed many philosophical turns. Some of them are: the linguistic turn, hermeneutical turn, the ecological turn, feministic turn and phenomenological turn. Philosophers began to look at philosophical problems from different perspective. Thus there is a paradigm shift from “arm-chair philosophy” to social oriented philosophy”. Especially the hermeneutical turn and the ecological turn gave a new methodology of upstanding human problems and both these turns are interrelated. The ecological turn may be defined as follows: “The ecological turn, is not a single or univocal issue; on the contrary, it stretches all the way from issues of pollution of our rivers to the question of the relationships of humans, the world and God. Every discipline and every ideology, every system of morality and every form of religion has to rethink their fundamentals in the light of the ecological question, on pain of otherwise turning themselves into engines of oppression”. This definition clearly shows that there is a need for protecting the environment and man cannot have an isolated life. His life is interrelated with the nature and other living beings."engWith permission of the license/copyright holderBio-EthicsSustainable Developmentethical philosophyenvironmental ethicsMethods of ethicsPhilosophical ethicsBioethicsEnvironmental ethicsResources ethicsArticle