Respect for Nature A Theory of Environmental Ethics

Zusatztext "When it first appeared! Respect for Nature was at once recognized for the important! groundbreaking work it was. It was deservedly a major influence in the then newly developing field of environmental ethics. Time has only confirmed this first opinion and it is good to have the book back before us." -Michael Ruse! editor of Philosophy after Darwin Informationen zum Autor Paul W. TaylorWith a new foreword by Dale Jamieson Klappentext "When it first appeared, Respect for Nature was at once recognized for the important, groundbreaking work it was. It was deservedly a major influence in the then newly developing field of environmental ethics. Time has only confirmed this first opinion and it is good to have the book back before us." --Michael Ruse, editor of Philosophy after Darwin "Paul Taylor notes that just as we would not ask 'What is a human being good for?, ' so also should we not ask 'What is nature good for?' This is surely right. His Respect for Nature is a systematic working out of the consequences of this observation. It is even more relevant today than when it first appeared twenty-five years ago." --Stephen Darwall, Yale University Zusammenfassung What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth? This title draws on biology, moral philosophy, and environmental science to defend a biocentric environmental ethic in which all life has value.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paul W. Taylor, Paul W Taylor, Paul Taylor
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 11.04.2011
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia; Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Altro
• EAN: 9780691150246
• ISBN: 978-0-691-15024-6
• Numero di pagine: 360
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14.3 x 21.8 x 2.5 cm
• Serie: Princeton University Press; Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy; Studies in Moral, Political, a; Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
• Categorie: Suggestion, Institution, Culture, Nature, Ethics, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Evolution, obligation, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Science, Well-Being, Philosophy, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, morality, Awareness, Biology, Theory, Ecology, ecosystem, reality, consciousness, Reason, Ethics & moral philosophy, Rights, Bioethics, Explanation, Disposition, Pollution, Disease, Conservation of the environment, Ethics and moral philosophy, Thought, Rationality, requirement, Principle, Bio-ethics, Tom Regan, Critical Thinking, Marine Biology, Consideration, Environmental Ethics, Impartiality, Human behavior, Organism, self-actualization, personhood, Self-Deception, Anthropocentrism, Natural environment, interdependence, World View, distributive justice, moral agency, Good and evil, Holism, practical reason, Prima Facie, Ecological Stability, Result, Philosopher, Respect for persons, Value (ethics), The Various, Form of life (philosophy), Instrumental Value, Adaptation and Natural Selection, land ethic, Wilderness Area, Aldo Leopold, Contemporary ethics, Brooklyn College, On Nature (Anaximander), Bioculture, The Case for Animal Rights, A Sand County Almanac, Basic norm, Nature (journal), Mary Anne Warren