| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 221 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge applied ethics
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Cambridge applied ethics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. |
| Summary |
What is the environment, and how does it figure in an ethical life? This book is an introduction to the philosophical issues involved in this important question, focussing primarily on ethics but also encompassing questions in aesthetics and political philosophy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Environmental ethics.
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Environmental ethics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jamieson, Dale. Ethics and the environment. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521864213 (DLC) 2008272089 (OCoLC)166382290 |
| ISBN |
9780511649523 (electronic book) |
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0511649525 (electronic book) |
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9780511376092 (ebook) |
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051137609X (ebook) |
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9781282390003 (MyiLibrary e-book) |
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9780511806186 (electronic book) |
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0511806183 (electronic book) |
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1282390007 (MyiLibrary e-book) |
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9780521864213 |
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0521864216 |
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9780521682848 |
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0521682843 |
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