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Environmental Ethics : Duties to and Values in the Natural World
Environmental Ethics is a systematic account of values carried by the natural world, coupled with an inquiry into duties toward animals, plants, species, and ecosystems. A comprehensive philosophy of nature is illustrated by and integrated with numerous actual examples of ethical decisions made in e...
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- 1. Humans Valuing the Natural Environment
- Values Carried by Nature
- Value Ownership
- Following Nature
- 2. Higher Animals: Duties to Sentient Life
- Natural Rights, Goods, Interests
- Human Dominion over Animals
- Domestic and Hunted Animals
- 3. Organisms: Duties to Organic Life
- Objective Value in Organisms
- Objective Life versus Subjective Life
- Human Interests and Organismic Values
- 4. Life in Jeopardy: Duties to Endangered Species
- Duties to Persons Concerning Species
- Specific Forms of Life
- Duties to Species
- Individuals and Species.
- Species and Ecosystem
- An Endangered Ethic?
- 5. Life in Community: Duties to Ecosystems
- Cooperation and Struggle
- Centered and Loose Organization
- Succession and Natural History
- Individuals in Communities
- Intrinsic, Instrumental, and Systemic Values
- Subjective Experience and Evolutionary Ecosystems
- 6. The Concepts of Natural Value: A Theory for Environmental Ethics
- Valuing Projective Nature
- Valuing in Ecosystems
- Valuing Aesthetic Nature
- 7. Environmental Policy: An Ethic of the Commons
- Collective Choice in an Environmental Ethic.
- A Value Analysis for Environmental Policy
- Environmental Principles and Strategies
- 8. Environmental Business: An Ethic for Commerce
- Business and a Humanistic Environmental Ethic
- Business and a Naturalistic Environmental Ethic
- Ethical Complexities in Business and Environmental Concerns
- Business and Nature
- 9. Down to Earth: Persons in Natural History
- Humans Resident in Nature and Culture
- Humans as Moral Overseers on Earth
- Storied Residence on Earth
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index.