Reflecting on Nature : Readings in Environmental Ethics and Philosophy
ISBN: 9780199782437 | 0199782431
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 8/31/2012
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Reflecting on Nature introduces readers to the fields of environmental philosophy and environmental ethics, offering both classic and current readings that focus on key themes - images of nature, ethics, justice, animals, food, climate, biodiversity, aesthetics and wilderness. It helps students to focus on fundamental issues within environmental philosophy and offers succinct readings that explore the central tensions and problems within environmentalphilosophy.
Spanning centuries of philosophical and environmental... MORE
Spanning centuries of philosophical and environmental... MORE
| Preface to the Second Edition | p. xi |
| Preface to the First Edition | p. xiii |
| Images of Nature | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis" | p. 4 |
| [From] "Genesis" | p. 11 |
| Aristotle, [From] Physics | p. 14 |
| Aristotle, [From] Politics | p. 15 |
| [From] The Second Treatise of Government | p. 15 |
| [From] On... MORE | p. 17 |
| "Anthropocentrism and Predation" | p. 18 |
| [From] "The Land Ethic" | p. 20 |
| [From] "Walking" | p. 21 |
| [From] Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy | p. 23 |
| [From] "On Nature" | p. 24 |
| [From] Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-First Century | p. 26 |
| [From] Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development | p. 29 |
| [From] "The Golden Rule-A Proper Scale for Our Environmental Crisis" | p. 30 |
| [From] "Being Prey" | p. 32 |
| [From] "The Basics of Deep Ecology" | p. 34 |
| [From] Silent Spring | p. 36 |
| Ethics and the Environment | p. 38 |
| Introduction | p. 38 |
| "Is There a Need for a New, an Environmental Ethic?" | p. 41 |
| "Must a Concern for the Environment Be Centered on Human Beings?" | p. 46 |
| [From] "On Being Morally Considerable" | p. 51 |
| "Normative Ethics" | p. 57 |
| "Environmental Virtue Ethics" | p. 67 |
| [From] Respect Jot Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics | p. 72 |
| [From] Beyond the Land Ethic | p. 82 |
| Justice and the Environment | p. 90 |
| Introduction | p. 90 |
| "One Community" | p. 93 |
| [From] "Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice" | p. 109 |
| "Environmental Racism" | p. 122 |
| Animals and the Environment | p. 140 |
| Introduction | p. 140 |
| "All Animals Are Equal…" | p. 143 |
| "The Moral Status of Animals" | p. 151 |
| "Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick Divorce" | p. 160 |
| "Animal Liberation Is an Environmental Ethic" | p. 167 |
| "Understanding Animal Rights Violence" | p. 177 |
| Contemporary Issues and Controversies | p. 184 |
| Food | p. 184 |
| [From] "The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Agriculture" | p. 186 |
| [From] Eating Animals | p. 188 |
| "The Omnivore's Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals" | p. 189 |
| [From] The Ethics of What We Eat | p. 191 |
| "Eating Meat and Eating People" | p. 192 |
| "Meat and Morality: Alternatives to Factory Farming" | p. 195 |
| Wilderness | p. 202 |
| [From] The Abstract Wild | p. 204 |
| "The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature" | p. 210 |
| "Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique" | p. 218 |
| Biodiversity | p. 226 |
| "Philosophical Problems for Environmentalism" | p. 228 |
| [From] Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy | p. 240 |
| "Biodiversity" | p. 244 |
| Climate Change | p. 256 |
| [From] "Global Warming in an Unequal World" | p. 258 |
| "Ethics and Climate Change" | p. 262 |
| [From] "Climate Change Justice" | p. 277 |
| Aesthetics | p. 287 |
| "Environmental Aesthetics" | p. 289 |
| "Nature and Positive Aesthetics" | p. 298 |
| "Objectivity in Environmental Aesthetics and Protection of the Environment" | p. 307 |
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Lori Gruen is Professor of Philosophy, Environmental Studies, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University. Dale Jamieson is Professor and Director of Environmental Studies, Professor of Philosophy, and Affiliated Professor of Law at New York University. Christopher Schlottmann is Clinical Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Environmental Studies and Affiliated Professor of Bioethics at New York University.
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