Ethics and the Environment An Introduction

Name: Ethics and the Environment An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780521682848

ISBN-10: 0521682843

ISBN-13: 9780521682848

Edition: 2008

Authors: Dale Jamieson

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What is the environment, and how does it figure in an ethical life? This book is an introduction to the philosophical issues involved in this important question, focussing primarily on ethics but also encompassing questions in aesthetics and political philosophy. Topics discussed include the environment as an ethical question, human morality, meta-ethics, normative ethics, humans and other animals, the value of nature, and nature's future. The discussion is accessible and richly illustrated with examples. The book will be valuable for students taking courses in environmental philosophy, and also for a wider audience in courses in ethics, practical ethics, and environmental studies. It will…

Book details

List price: $40.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/24/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 234
Size: 6.81" wide x 9.53" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Preface



The environment as an ethical question



Nature and the environment



Dualism and ambivalence



Environmental problems



Questions of scale



Types of harm



Causes of environmental problems



The role of technology



The economic perspective



Religion and worldviews



Ethics, aesthetics, and values



Human morality



The nature and functions of morality



Challenges to morality



Amoralism



Theism



Relativism



What these challenges teach us



Meta-ethics



The structure of the field



Realism



Subjectivism



The sensible center



Intrinsic value



Normative ethics



Moral theories



Consequentialism



Virtue ethics



Kantianism



Practical ethics



Humans and other animals



Speciesism



Animals and moral theory



Using animals



Animals and other values



The value of nature



Biocentrism



Ecocentrism



Valuing reconsidered



The plurality of values



Conflicts and trade-offs



Nature's future



Travails of the biosphere



Questions of justice



Visions of the future



Conclusion


References


Index