Environmental Ethics

by Boylan, Michael, Series Editor, Basic Ethics in Action Series

• ISBN13: 9780137763863
• ISBN10: 0137763867
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-05
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This book introduces readers to important ethical issues that arise in the realm of environmental ethics. It addresses two common problems that are faced: how does one make sense of the different theoretical positions, and how does one integrate theory into action? An "argument-based" style and tone challenges readers to think about some of the various implications that the acceptance of ethical issues will entail.Chapter topics include Four Traditional Ethical Theories, Worldview Arguments for Environmentalism, A Linking Principle to Applied Environmental Ethics, The Moral Basis for Environmentalism, and Applied Environmental Ethics.For anyone interested in the formal study of environmental, business, medical, or professional ethics.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Contributors	xiii
Introduction: Worldview and Applied Ethics	1	(21)
Interview with Tamar Datan	17	(5)
Four Traditional Ethical Theories	22	(16)
Evaluating a Case Study: Developing a Practical Ethical Viewpoint	30	(8)
Worldview Arguments For Environmentalism	38	(141)
The Land Ethic, Deep Ecology, and Social Ecology	40	(36)
The Land Ethic	41	(8)
Aldo Leopold
The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement: A Summary	49	(5)
Arne Naess
Deep Ecology	54	(8)
Bill Devall
George Sessions
What Is Social Ecology?	62	(14)
Murray Bookchin
Ecofeminism	76	(33)
Ecofeminism and Feminist Theory	77	(7)
Carolyn Merchant
The Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism	84	(8)
Karen J. Warren
[From] Nature, Self, and Gender: Feminism, Environmental Philosophy, and the Critique of Rationalism	92	(17)
Val Plumwood
Religion and Aesthetics	109	(64)
Bal-Taschit: A Jewish Environmental Precept	111	(20)
Eilon Schwartz
Ties That Bind: Native American Beliefs as a Foundation for Environmental Consciousness	131	(10)
Annie L. Booth
Harvey M. Jacobs
African Biocommunitarianism and Australian Dreamtime	141	(18)
J. Baird Callicott
Aesthetics and the Value of Nature	159	(14)
Janna Thompson
Evaluating a Case Study: Finding the Conflicts	173	(6)
A Linking Principle to Applied Environmental Ethics	179	(26)
Worldview and the Value-Duty Link to Environmental Ethics	180	(17)
Michael Boylan
Evaluating a Case Study: Assessing Embedded Levels	197	(8)
The Moral Basis For Environmentalism	205	(96)
Anthropocentric Justification	206	(21)
Human Rights and Future Generations	207	(5)
Alan Gewirth
Environmental Values, Anthropocentrism and Speciesism	212	(15)
Onora O'Neill
Biocentric Justifications	227	(33)
Environmental Ethics: Values in and Duties to the Natural World	228	(20)
Holmes Rolston III
Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics	248	(12)
Paul Taylor
Searching the Middle	260	(34)
Reconciling Anthropocentric and Nonanthropocentric Environmental Ethics	262	(15)
James P. Sterba
On the Reconciliation of Anthropocentric and Nonanthropocentric Environmental Ethics	277	(12)
Brian K. Steverson
Reconciliation Reaffirmed: A Reply to Steverson	289	(5)
James P. Sterba
Evaluating a Case Study: Applying Ethical Issues	294	(7)
Applied Environmental Ethics	301	(117)
Animal Rights	302	(38)
All Animals Are Equal	304	(16)
Peter Singer
The Radical Egalitarian Case for Animal Rights	320	(11)
Tom Regan
A Critique of Regan's Animal Rights Theory	331	(9)
Mary Anne Warren
Biodiversity	340	(35)
Biodiversity as the Source of Biological Resources: A New Look at Biodiversity Values	341	(17)
Paul M. Wood
``Philosophical Problems for Environmentalism''	358	(17)
Elliott Sober
Sustainable Development	375	(35)
`Sustainable Development': Is It a Useful Concept?	377	(18)
Wilfred Beckerman
On Wilfred Beckerman's Critique of Sustainable Development	395	(7)
Herman E. Daly
In Defence of Sustainable Development	402	(2)
Henryk Skolimowski
In Defence of Weak Sustainability: A Response to Beckerman	404	(6)
Salah El Serafy
Evaluating a Case Study: Structuring the Essay	410	(8)
Internet Resources	418	(2)
Further Readings	420	(5)
Acknowledgments	425