Environmental Ethics : An Introduction with Readings

ISBN-13: 9780415212359 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 304 str.

John Benson

Opis

An introductory textbook on ethical issues about the environment and our involvement with it. John Benson introduces the reader to a fundamental question: whether a concern with human well-being is an adequate basis for environmental ethics. The book explores this question by considering some of the techniques that have been used to value the environment and by critically examining light green to deep green environmentalism. It presupposes no prior knowledge of philosophy and by the end of the book readers will be able to: confidently and critically discuss aspects of the meaning of environment; understand and evaluate for themselves the different approaches to environmental ethics; and critically discuss some of the writings by key commentators on environmental ethics, such as J.S Mill and John O'Neill.

Recenzje

Readers will find much of value in the arguments advanced and in the clarity with which they are presented. - Animal Welfare

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Environments and environmental ethics 2. Environmental goods and human well-being 3. Environmental goods and the problem of cooperation 4. Environmental virtues 5. What entities have independent moral status? 6. Relating to nature 1: following nature 7. Relating to nature 2: on being a part of nature Readings: 1. 'Environmental ethics in practice' Richard and Val Routley 2. 'The Cultural Approach to Conservation Biology' Bryan G. Norton 3. 'The environmental ethic' Edward O. Wilson 4. 'Neither Use nor Ornament: A Consumers' Guide to Care' Jane Howarth 5. 'Economic valuation of environmental goods' David Pearce, Anil Markandya and Edward D. Barber 6. 'A reply to some criticisms' David Pearce 7. 'The Tragedy of the Commons' Garrett Hardin 8. 'Game theory analysis' J.L. Mackie 9. 'Wonder' R.W. Hepburn 10. 'Science, wonder and lust of the eyes' John O'Neill 11. 'Respect for Nature' Paul W. Taylor 12. 'Nature' John Stuart Mill 13. 'Can and Ought We to Follow Nature?' Holmes Rolston III 14. 'Identification, oneness, wholeness and self-realization' Arne Naess 15. 'Transpersonal ecology and the varieties of identification' Warwick Fox 16. 'Nature, Self and Gender: Feminism, Environmental Philosophy and the Critique of Rationalism' Val Plumwood 17. Environmental verses Philip Larkin, G.M. Hopkins, W.H. Auden Revision test Answers to revision test Bibliography Index

O autorze

John Benson