Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection Suffering and Responsibility

Name: Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection Suffering and Responsibility
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ISBN: 9780231126618

ISBN-10: 0231126611

ISBN-13: 9780231126618

Edition: 2003

Authors: Lisa Sideris, Lisa Sideris

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In the last few decades, religious and secular thinkers have tackled the world's escalating environmental crisis by attempting to develop an ecological ethic that is both scientifically accurate and free of human-centered preconceptions. This groundbreaking study shows that many of these environmental ethicists continue to model their positions on romantic, pre-Darwinian concepts that disregard the predatory and cruelly competitive realities of the natural world. Examining the work of such influential thinkers as James Gustafson, Sallie McFague, Rosemary Radford Ruether, John Cobb, Peter Singer, and Holmes Rolston, Sideris proposes a more realistic ethic that combines evolutionary theory…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 7/16/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.94" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



This View of Life: The Significance of Evolutionary Theory for Environmental Ethics



The Best of All Possible Worlds: Ecofeminist Views of Nature and Ethics



The Ecological Model and the Reanimation of Nature



Darwinian Equality for All: Secular Views of Animal Rights and Liberation



Philosophical and Theological Critiques of Ecological Theology: Broadening Environmental Ethics from Ecocentric and Theocentric Perspectives



A Comprehensive Naturalized Ethic


Conclusion: Finitude and Responsibility


Notes


Works Cited


Index