Ethics and the Environment - An Introduction

Informationen zum Autor Dale Jamieson is Director of Environmental Studies at New York University, where he is also Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, and Affiliated Professor of Law. Klappentext Jamieson asks what is the environment, and how does it figure in an ethical life? Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The environment as an ethical question; 2. Human morality; 3. Meta-ethics; 4. Normative ethics; 5. Humans and other animals; 6. The value of nature; 7. Nature's future.

Product details

• Authors: Dale Jamieson, Dale (New York University) Jamieson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.01.2008
• EAN: 9780521864213
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86421-3
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Cambridge Applied Ethics; Cambridge Applied Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works