| Description |
xi, 221 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge applied ethics
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-215) and index. |
| Contents |
The environment as an ethical question : Nature and the environment ; Dualism and ambivalence ; Environmental problems ; Questions of scale ; Types of harm ; Causes of environmental problems ; The role of technology ; The economic perspective ; Religion and worldviews ; Ethics, aesthetics, and values -- Human morality : The nature and functions of morality ; Challenges to morality ; Amoralism ; Theism ; Relativism ; What these challenges teach us -- Meta-ethics : The structure of the field ; Realism ; Subjectivism ; The sensible center ; Intrinsic value -- Normative ethics : Moral theories ; Consequentialism ; Virtue ethics ; Kantianism ; Practical ethics -- Humans and other animals : Speciesism ; Animals and moral theory ; Using animals ; Animals and other values -- The value of nature : Biocentricism ; Ecocentrism ; Valuing reconsidered ; The plurality of values ; Conflicts and trade-offs -- Nature's future : Travails of the biosphere ; Questions of justice ; Visions of the future ; Conclusion. |
| Subject(s) |
Environmental ethics.
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