Ecological ethics : an introduction / Patrick Curry.
This book is a major new introduction to the field of ecological ethics. Taking issue with the common assumption that existing human ethics can be 'extended' to meet the demands of the ongoing ecological crisis, the author shows that a new and truly ecological ethic is both possible and ur...
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA :
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Ecological ethics : |b an introduction / |c Patrick Curry. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Cambridge, UK ; |a Malden, MA : |b Polity Press, |c 2006. | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-168) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Value and nature -- Ethics and grub -- What's new? -- Transparency -- The Earth in crisis -- The signs -- Analysing ecocrisis -- Science and technology -- Ethics -- What is ethics? -- Ethical realism vs. relativism -- The naturalistic fallacy -- Religious ethics -- Secular ethics -- Three schools of ethics -- Virtue ethics -- Deontology ('Rights') -- Utilitarianism ('Consequences') -- Value -- Some issues -- Anthropocentrism -- Ecocentrism -- Light green or shallow (anthropocentric) ethics -- What is a light green ethic? -- Lifeboat ethics -- Mid-green or intermediate ethics -- Animal liberation -- Animal rights -- Biocentrism -- Dark green or deep (ecocentric) ethics -- A suggested definition -- The land ethic -- Gaia theory -- Deep ecology -- Deep green theory -- Left biocentrism -- The Earth manifesto -- Ecofeminism -- Deep green ethics as post-secular -- Dogmatic secularism -- An ecocentric spirituality -- Moral pluralism and pragmatism -- The poverty of monism -- The consequences of pluralism -- Green citizenship -- Making it real -- A long revolution -- Ecological Republicanism -- A note on cunning wisdom -- A case-study: human overpopulation -- The problem -- Analysing overpopulation -- What overpopulation is and is not -- Overpopulation and ecocentrism. | |
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