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Informationen zum Autor David R. Keller is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethics at Utah Valley University. He is co-editor of The Philosophy of Ecology: From Science to Synthesi s (with Frank Golley, 2000), and co-author of Ethics in Action (with Peggy Connolly, Becky Cox-White, and Martin G. Leever, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), a case-based approach to introducing ethics and environmental issues. Klappentext Environmental ethics is a relatively new philosophical discipline that addresses the complex convergence of humans with the natural world and its nonhuman inhabitants. Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions presents a series of interdisciplinary readings that examine the moral dimensions of the delicate relationship between human beings and the environment. Carefully chosen selections drawn from philosophy, the social and life sciences, economics, history, legal studies, business, and literature are organized clearly around the history of anthropocentric (human-centered) and nonanthropocentric origins of environmental ethics. The readings serve as an investigation of the proper scope of moral considerations relating to the environment - one that includes humans, animals, living things, ecosystems, and the built environment. Other topics include political approaches to environmental ethics, the importance of ecological science, and contemporary public policy issues such as agriculture, sustainability, population, globalization, and injustice. Readers are also directed to an online archive of continually updated international case studies that serve to complement and explicate the theoretical discussions outlined in the text. Thought provoking and timely, Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions offers illuminating insights into an issue that is becoming more critical each year. To view a growing archive of environmental ethics case studies, please visit: http://environmentalethics.info/. Zusammenfassung Through a series of multidisciplinary readings! Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of Western intellectual tradition and traces the development of theory since the 1970s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Preface. Part II. What is the Proper Suject-Matter of Moral Philosophy? A Brief Overview of Environmental Ethics: David Keller. Part III. Why Study Environmental Ethics? . Essays by:. Emily Brady. Isis Brook. Baird Callicott. Victoria Davion. Frederick Ferré. Warwick Fox. Greta Gaard. John Granrose. Gene Hargrove. Andrew Light. Bryan Norton. Clare Palmer. Holmes Rolston. David Rothenberg. Mark Sagoff. George Sessions. Peter Singer. Ian Smith. James Sterba. Karen Warren. Michael Zimmerman. Part IV. WHAT IS ANTHROPOCENTRISM?. 1. Introduction. 2. Humans as Moral Ends: Saint Thomas Aquinas from Summa Contra Gentiles . 3. The Mastery of Nature: Francis Bacon from The Great Instauration . 4. Nonhumans as Machines: Rene Descartes from Discourse on the Method . 5. The Amoral Status of Nature: John Stuart Mill from "Nature". 6. Nature as Economic Resource: John Locke from "Of Property". 7. Indirect Duties to Nonhumans: Immanuel Kant from Lectures on Ethics. 8. Mechanistic Metaphysics: Isaac Newton from Opticks . 9. In Defense of Anthropocentrism: Wilfred Beckerman and Joanna Pasek from Justice, Posterity, and the Environment. Part V. WHAT IS NONANTHROPOCENTRISM?. 10. Introduction. 11. Walking: Henry David Thoreau from Excursions. 12. The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West: John Muir from Our National Pa...
