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Environmental Ethics

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Description for Environmental Ethics Paperback. Presents an account of values carried by the natural world, coupled with an inquiry into duties toward animals, plants, species, and ecosystems. This work illustrates the philosophy of nature with numerous actual examples of ethical decisions made in encounters with fauna and flora, endangered species, and threatened ecosystems. Series: Ethics & Action. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 544.

Environmental Ethics is a systematic account of values carried by the natural world, coupled with an inquiry into duties toward animals, plants, species, and ecosystems. A comprehensive philosophy of nature is illustrated by and integrated with numerous actual examples of ethical decisions made in encounters with fauna and flora, endangered species, and threatened ecosystems. The ethics developed is informed throughout by ecological science and evolutionary biology, with attention to the logic of moving from what is in nature to what ought to be. 

The ethical theory is applied in detail to social, public, and business policy. Written in ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Series
Ethics & Action
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9780877226284
SKU
V9780877226284
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Reviews for Environmental Ethics
"By refusing to be pulled toward either an economics-based or a biocentrist position, Rolston bridges an otherwise yawning gap between the two camps... A model of the environmental thinking-and acting-required now and in the future."
Christian Science Monitor "Rolston's incisive logic...poetic insights...and almost conversational style reassure the reader... With luck, lots of people will accompany him on this journey, returning ... Read more

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