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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 Preface xi List of Sources xiii Introduction: What is Environmental Ethics? 1 Part I Why Study Environmental Ethics? 25 George Sessions Emily Brady John Granrose Frederick Ferré J Baird Callicott Warwick Fox Eugene C Hargrove Ian Smith Isis Brook Holmes Rolston III Clare Palmer Kristin Shrader-Frechette Victoria Davion Greta Gaard Peter Singer James P Sterba Michael E Zimmerman Bryan G Norton Anthony Weston David Rothenberg Contributors to Part I 53 Part II What Is Anthropocentrism? 57 Introduction 59 1 Humans as Moral Ends 63 Thomas Aquinas 2 The Mastery of Nature 65 Francis Bacon 3 Nonhumans as Machines 69 René Descartes 4 Mechanistic Metaphysics 72 Isaac Newton 5 The Amoral Status of Nature 73 John Stuart Mill 6 Nature as Economic Resource 77 John Locke 7 Indirect Duties to Nonhumans 82 Immanuel Kant 8 In Defense of Anthropocentrism 83 Wilfred Beckerman and Joanna Pasek Part III What Is Nonanthropocentrism? 89 Introduction 91 9 Walking 93 Henry David Thoreau 10 The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West and Hetch Hetchy Valley 96 John Muir 11 Is There a Need for a New, an Environmental, Ethic? 98 Richard (Routley) Sylvan 12 Attitudes to Nature 103 John Passmore 13 Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects 110 Christopher D. Stone 14 The Varieties of Intrinsic Value 120 John O'Ne...
