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Ethics of nature : a map /
Is nature's value only instrumental value for human beings or does nature also have intrinsic value? Can traditional anthropocentrism be defended or must we move to a new, physiocentric moral position? This study develops a critical taxonomy or "map" of thirteen arguments for the cons...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
W. de Gruyter,
1999.
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| Colección: | Perspectives in analytical philosophy ;
Bd. 22. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Guest Foreword / Bernard Williams
- Synopsis of Argument
- Why an Ethics of Nature?
- The Philosophical Discipline of the Ethics of Nature
- The Objective of This Study
- Basic Concepts
- Nature
- A Definition of "Nature" for Environmental Ethics
- Oikos, Cosmos, and the Human Body
- Conservation versus Cultivation of Nature
- Ethics
- The Object of Ethics and the Distinction between Intrinsic and Instrumental Value
- Good Human Life and Right Human Life
- Good Human Life
- The Core
- Basic Options
- Luxury
- The Well-Being and the Agency Aspect of Good Human Life
- The Hedonistic Challenge
- Three Forms of Pleasure
- An Answer to the Hedonistic Challenge
- The Objection to Paternalism
- Moral Concern and Self-Interest
- The Hermeneutics and the Justification of Moral Culture
- Anthropocentrism versus Physiocentrism
- The Boundaries of the Moral Universe
- "Extensional Anthropocentrism" versus "Extensional Physiocentrism"
- The Absolute Strategy in the Ethics of Nature
- "Epistemic Anthropocentrism" versus "Epistemic Physiocentrism"
- Seven Anthropocentric Arguments for the Value of Nature
- The Basic Needs Argument
- Classical Thoughts
- The Argument
- Lost Peace with Nature? The Need for Environmental History
- Some Reasons Why the Basic Needs Argument Is Not as Effective as You Might Expect
- Two Versions of the Basic Needs Argument which Incorporate Intrinsic Value Claims for Nature
- "Nature Knows Best"
- The Motivational Version
- The Aisthesis Argument
- Literary Thoughts
- The Argument.