• Media type: Book
  • Title: Ecological ethics : an introduction
  • Contains: Introduction: This book ; An initial example ; Looking ahead ; Value and nature ; Ethics and grub ; What's new? ; Transparency and responsibility -- The earth in crisis: The signs ; Analysing ecocrisis ; Science and technology -- Ethics: What is ethics? ; Realism vs. relativism ; The naturalistic fallacy ; Religious ethics ; Secular ethics -- Three schools of ethics: Deontology ('rights') ; Consequentialism ('effects') ; Virtue ethics ; A green virtue ethic -- Value: Some issues ; Anthropocentrism ; Ecocentrism -- Light green or shallow (anthropocentric) ethics: What is a light green ethic? ; Environmentalism ; Lifeboat ethics -- Mid-green or intermediate ethics: Animal liberation ; Animal rights ; Biocentrism ; Animals and us ; Wild animals ; Domestic animals ; On (not) eating animals : the options -- Dark green or deep (ecocentric) ethics: A suggested definition ; The land ethic ; Gaia theory ; Deep ecology ; Deep green theory ; Left biocentrism ; Ecocentrism and the Left ; The Earth manifesto ; The Earth charter -- Ecofeminism: A master mentality ; Ecofeminism in action ; Ecofeminism and ethics -- Deep green ethics as post-secular: Dogmatic secularism ; An ecocentric spirituality ; Animism ; Green Buddhism? -- Moral pluralism and pragmatism: The poverty of monism ; The consequences of pluralism ; Multicentrism -- Green citizenship and education: Making it real ; A long revolution ; Ecological education ; Traditional ecological knowledge ; Ecological Republicanism ; A note on wisdom -- Grounding ecological ethics: The food system ; On Malthus ; Climate change ; Wind power and energy ; Nuclear energy ; Geo-engineering ; Carbon trading and ecosystem service : the new gods of the market ; Sustainability ; The limits to growth ; A left ecocentric guide to capitalism ; Alternatives ; Movements in the right direction -- Human overpopulation: The problem ; Analysing overpolulation ; Taking on the arguments ; Climate change again ; Overpopulation and ecocentrism ; -- Postscript.
    Introduction:This book ;An initial example ;Looking ahead ;Value and nature ;Ethics and grub ;What's new? ;Transparency and responsibility -- The earth in crisis:The signs ;Analysing ecocrisis ;Science and technology -- Ethics:What is ethics? ;Realism vs. relativism ;The naturalistic fallacy ;Religious ethics ;Secular ethics -- Three schools of ethics:Deontology ('rights') ;Consequentialism ('effects') ;Virtue ethics ;A green virtue ethic -- Value:Some issues ;Anthropocentrism ;Ecocentrism -- Light green or shallow (anthropocentric) ethics:What is a light green ethic? ;Environmentalism ;Lifeboat ethics -- Mid-green or intermediate ethics:Animal liberation ;Animal rights ;Biocentrism ;Animals and us ;Wild animals ;Domestic animals ;On (not) eating animals : the options -- Dark green or deep (ecocentric) ethics:A suggested definition ;The land ethic ;Gaia theory ;Deep ecology ;Deep green theory ;Left biocentrism ;Ecocentrism and the Left ;The Earth manifesto ;The Earth charter -- Ecofeminism:A master mentality ;Ecofeminism in action ;Ecofeminism and ethics -- Deep green ethics as post-secular:Dogmatic secularism ;An ecocentric spirituality ;Animism ;Green Buddhism? -- Moral pluralism and pragmatism:The poverty of monism ;The consequences of pluralism ;Multicentrism -- Green citizenship and education:Making it real ;A long revolution ;Ecological education ;Traditional ecological knowledge ;Ecological Republicanism ;A note on wisdom -- Grounding ecological ethics:The food system ;On Malthus ;Climate change ;Wind power and energy ;Nuclear energy ;Geo-engineering ;Carbon trading and ecosystem service : the new gods of the market ;Sustainability ;The limits to growth ;A left ecocentric guide to capitalism ;Alternatives ;Movements in the right direction -- Human overpopulation:The problem ;Analysing overpolulation ;Taking on the arguments ;Climate change again ;Overpopulation and ecocentrism ; -- Postscript.
  • Contributor: Curry, Patrick [Author]
  • imprint: Cambridge [u.a.]: Polity Press, 2011
  • Issue: 2. ed., fully revised & expanded
  • Extent: XI, 332 S.
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780745651262; 9780745651255
  • RVK notation: CC 7260 : Allgemeines
    AR 14350 : Umweltethik (Verantwortungsbewusstsein, philosophische Fragen)
  • Keywords: Umweltethik
    Umweltethik
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