Understanding environmental philosophy /
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Author / Creator: | Brennan, Andrew. |
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Imprint: | Durham : Acumen, 2010. |
Description: | vi, 234 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Understanding movements in modern thought Understanding movements in modern thought. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8292712 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the place of environmental philosophy and its basic concepts
- Future generations: what consideration do we owe them?
- Animals: are they as morally valuable as human beings?
- Living things: ethics for the non-human world
- Community: how big is our moral world?
- Natural things: the puzzle of what "natural" means, and whether humans belong to nature
- Foundations: can there be a secular basis for the ideas of human dignity and intrinsic value in nature?
- Origins: political, religious and cultural diagnoses of environmental problems
- Beyond individual responsibility: governance and the affluenzic society.