| 1953 - 1224 pages
...PRESS, from A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold, New York, 1949) in the making. All present ethics rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and... | |
| 1977 - 1012 pages
...for a theoretical discussion, "The Land Ethic," which is the climax of that book. There he writes: All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise:...community, but his ethics prompt him also to cooperate.... The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1972 - 224 pages
...such situations. Ethics are possibly a kind of community instinct in-the-making. THE COMMUNITY CONCEPT All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise...His instincts prompt him to compete for his place in that community, but his ethics prompt him also to cooperate (perhaps in order that there may be a place... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1972 - 1894 pages
...such situations. Ethics are possibly a kind of community instinct in-the-making. THE COMMUNITY CONCEPT All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise : that the individual is a :in rnber of a community of interdependent parts. His instincts prompt him to compete for his place... | |
| 1974 - 1016 pages
...Swatek* Environmental Affairs Coordinator Massachusetts Audubon Society Lincoln, Massachusetts 01773 The individual is a member of a community of interdependent...community, but his ethics prompt him also to cooperate. Believing that pecuniary motivation is high on the list of human priorities, freer market mechanisms... | |
| United States. National Bureau of Standards - 1978 - 804 pages
...trade-offs, P. Swatek, SP403. pp. 215-223 (June 1976). Key words: costs; economics; energy; environment. The individual is a member of a community of interdependent...community but his ethics prompt him also to cooperate. Believing that pecuniary motivation is high on the list of human priorities, freer market mechanisms... | |
| Calgary Institute for the Humanities - 1993 - 215 pages
...with Aldo Leopold's ecological concept of a biotic community: "All ethics so far evolved rest upon the single premise that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts" (Callicott 1989, 215). To this the aboriginal would add that all of these interdependent parts are... | |
| J. Baird Callicott - 1987 - 322 pages
...origin in the tendency of interdependent individuals or groups to evolve modes of co-operation, ... all ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise:...is a member of a community of interdependent parts" (202-3). Hence, we may expect to find that the scope and specific content of ethics will reflect both... | |
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