The Ethics of Environmental ConcernUniversity of Georgia Press, 2011 M03 15 - 280 pages First published in 1983, The Ethics of Environmental Concern has become a classic in the relatively new field of environmental ethics. Examining traditional attitudes toward nature, and the degree to which these attitudes enable us to cope with modern ecological problems, Robin Attfield looks particularly at the Judeo-Christian heritage of belief in humankind's dominion, the tradition of stewardship, and the more recent belief in progress to determine the extent to which these attitudes underlie ecological problems and how far they embody resources adequate for combating such problems. He then examines concerns of applied ethics and considers our obligations to future generations, the value of life, and the moral standing and significance of nonhumans. Simultaneously, he offers and defends a theory of moral principles appropriate for dealing with such concerns as pollution, scarce natural resources, population growth, and the conservation and preservation of the environment. The second edition includes a new preface and introduction, as well as a bibliographic essay and an updated list of references incorporating relevant scholarship since the publication of the first edition. |
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... intrinsic value of an ani- mal's flourishing or about our responsibility not to subvert the life- support systems of future generations . While I made no secret in the first edition of my presuppositions about all this , one foreseeable ...
... intrinsic value ' . While he accepts that this theory is not egoistic or anthropo- centric , he defends the contrasting view that natural objects ( or some of them ) are of value in themselves whether or not any human subject ever values ...
... intrinsic value , can itself value the human appreciation of such independent value , without committing ' a fallacy of the misplaced location of values'.18 Similar comments , I suggest , are in place about Robert Elliot's theory of value ...
... intrinsic value is defended in chapter 2 , and a theory of its application is elaborated in chapters 3-5 . My own ... value and obligations , of which knowledge is also sometimes pos- sible . Intrinsic value ( in the sense supplied above ) ...
... values - too wide , perhaps , granted his purported discovery of ' systemic value ' as a third kind alongside value of the intrinsic and instrumental sorts . 33 But Rolston appears to adopt more than one overall position . At one stage ...