Morality and the Environmental Crisis

Informationen zum Autor Roger S. Gottlieb is Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, and the Nautilus Book Award winning author or editor of twenty books of ethics, political theory, religious studies, and contemporary spirituality. He is internationally known as a leading analyst of religious environmentalism and for his original accounts of spirituality in an age of environmental crisis and the role of religion in a democratic society. Klappentext The environmental crisis besieges morality with unanswered questions and ethical dilemmas, requiring fresh examination of nature's value, animal rights, activism, and despair. Zusammenfassung The environmental crisis creates painful emotions and difficult moral dilemmas. This engaging! compassionate! and intellectually rigorous book helps readers think through the value of nature and our treatment of animals! individual responsibility and collective political change! newfound dilemmas of reason! and how to face environmental despair. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Environmental crisis and moral life; 2. Why does nature matter? Paths to an environmental ethic; 3. The spirit of ecological democracy; 4. Can we talk? Understanding the 'other side' in the animal rights debates; 5. Where do we draw the line? Limits and virtues; 6. Guilt and responsibility; 7. Changing the world: a moral primer on environmental political activism; 8. Dilemmas of reason; 9. Despair; 10. Futures.

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• Authors: Roger S Gottlieb, Roger S. Gottlieb, Roger S. (Worcester Polytechnic Institut Gottlieb, Roger S. (Worcester Polytechnic Institute Gottlieb, Gottlieb Roger S.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781316506127
• ISBN: 978-1-316-50612-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: The Cambridge RF and Microwave Engineering Series; The Cambridge RF and Microwave Engineering Series; Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Pollution & threats to the environment, Conservation of the environment, Ethics and moral philosophy, Pollution and threats to the environment