Earth's Insights A Multicultural Survey of Ecological Ethics from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback

Name: Earth's Insights A Multicultural Survey of Ecological Ethics from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback
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ISBN: 9780520085602

ISBN-10: 0520085604

ISBN-13: 9780520085602

Edition: 1996

Authors: J. Baird Callicott

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The environmental crisis is global in scope, yet contemporary environmental ethics is centered predominantly in Western philosophy and religion.Earth's Insightswidens the scope of environmental ethics to include the ecological teachings embedded in non-Western worldviews. J. Baird Callicott ranges broadly, exploring the sacred texts of Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Zen Buddhism, as well as the oral traditions of Polynesia, North and South America, and Australia. He also documents the attempts of various peoples to put their environmental ethics into practice. Finally, he wrestles with a question of vital importance to all people sharing the fate of this small planet:…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/29/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Foreward



Introduction


The Notion of and Need for Environmental Ethics


The Historical Roots of Western European Environmental Attitudes and Values


Environmental Attitudes and Values in South asian Intellectual Traditions


Traditional East Asian Deep Ecology


Ecological Insights in East Asian Buddhism


Far Western Environmental Ethics


South American Eco-Eroticism


African Biocommunitarianism and Australian Dreamtime


A Postmodern Evolutional


Ecological Environmental Ethic


Traditional Evironmental Ethics in Action