Ethics and the Environment

2. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-108-83417-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 684 g

Reihe: Cambridge Applied Ethics

This new edition of a widely used and cited introduction to ethics and the environment offers a broad and lively discussion of nature's future, focusing on climate change, conservation, and justice for both our contemporaries and future generations. It discusses the nature of environmental problems and their relationship to economics, religion, technology, and aesthetics. It includes incisive discussions of our moral relations with other animals, and of how animals are used in our food systems. It also provides a deep discussion of the value of nature, which takes up ecofeminist and deep ecology views as well as sentientism and biocentrism.  It discusses the plurality of values, and applies this analysis to some conflicts from the author's home state of California. The volume is comprehensively revised and updated, with several new chapters, and concludes with a compelling discussion of the question “How should I live?” in this new epoch of the Anthropocene.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jamieson, Dale

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Environment as an Ethical Question; 2. Human Morality; 3. Moral Philosophy; 4. Normative Ethics; 5. Humans and Other Animals; 6. Animals, Food and the Environment; 7. The Value of Nature; 8. The Plurality of Values; 9. California Conflicts; 10. Nature's Future; 11. How Should I Live?

Über Autor(innen)

Jamieson, Dale
Dale Jamieson is Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy Emeritus at New York University. He is the author of Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed-and What It Means for Our Future (2014); Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature (2002); and the co-editor of Environment and Society: A Reader (2017).