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Environmental philosophy : a revaluation of cosmopolitan ethics from an ecocentric standpoint /
This book calls for a new approach to ethics. Starting from the necessity for all life of air, water, and food, the book revalues the relation of ethics and environmentalism. Using insights of the environmental ethicists, environmental ethics becomes the model for ethics as a whole. Humans are part...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi B.V.,
2014.
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| Colección: | Value inquiry book series ;
273. Value inquiry book series. Studies in applied ethics. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; One Toward a Deontological Environmental Ethic; 1. Creative Actualization; 2. Limitations on Creative Actualization; 3. Creative Actualization of Moral Values; 4. Toward a Deontological Environmental Ethic; Two Rethinking Cosmopolitan Ethics; 1. Cosmopolitanism; 2. Moral Progress; 3. The Challenge from Humanism, Humanism as a Worldview:The Hierarchy of Nature as Human Chauvinism; 4. A Critical Evaluation of Anthropocentrism; 5. A Defense of Ecocentrism; 6. Humanist Critics of Ecocentrism.
- 7. Environmental Ethics as Cosmopolitan: EcocentricCosmopolitanism8. Principles of Ethics; 9. Environmental Justice and Social Justice; Three Cosmopolitan Virtue: a Critical Evaluation of a Generation; 1. Free Will and the Moral Self: Development; 2. The Self and Free Will; 3. The Actuality of Character; 4. Ways of Life; 5. Cosmopolitan Virtue; 6. The Revalulation of Virtues from an Ecocentric Standpoint; Four The Problem of ""Rights"" in the Wild; 1. Wild Rights; 2. Moral Pluralism; 3. Situation Ethics; 4. Wild Value; Five Value and Obligation; 1. Consequentialism.
- 2. Pragmatic Consequentialism3. Kant; 4. The Relation of Value and Obligation; 5. Creative Actualization of Moral Value; Six Rational Self-Interest, an Oxymoron.; 1. Rationality; 2. A Critique of Environmental Ethics; 3. The Lack of Ethics in the Self-Interest Theory; 4. The Immorality of Utilitarianism; 5. The Theory of Obligation in Utilitarianism: The GreatestGood of the Greatest Number; 6. Satisfaction of Interests; 7. Economic Utility; Seven Population: A Critical Evaluation of the ""Right"" t o Unlimited Procreation; 1. Population Ethics.
- 2. The Basis for Encouraging Population: Military, and Strategic3. Relativism; 4. Historical Relativism; 5. Individual Relativism; 6. Tribalism; 7. The Basis for Encouraging Population: Religion; 8. The Problem of Coercion; Eight In Defense of Species; 1. Social Constructivism; 2. Cultural Relativism; 3. Would Social Construction of Species Make a PracticalDifference?; 4. The Challenge from Nominalism; 5. The Moral Issue; 6. Evil; Nine The Virtues of Thrift; 1. Economics and Ethics; 2. Thrift; 3. Consumer Society; 4. Social Thrift; Ten The Culture of Death; 1. Human Expansion.
- 2. Threats to All Life3. Technology; Eleven Practical Program for Implementing the EnvironmentalEra; 1. Relations to Other Species; 2. Conservation for Future Generations; 3. Ecology for Society; 4. Reform of Institutions; 5. End ""Management"" of Wildlands; 6. Limit or Outlaw Some Types of Technology; Epilogue: Environmental Philosophy as a System: FromEnvironmental Ethics to Environmental Philosophy; 1. Environmental Ethics and First Philosophy; 2. System; Appendix: Rare, Threatened and Endangered: Reflections upon the Categories of Botanical Scarcity; 1. Rarity.