Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical EssaysThe first sustained study of Leopold's seminal book as well as a work of art, philosophy, and social commentary. |
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... surrounded philosophical issues in environmental ethics: anthropocentric vs. nonanthro- pocentric value theory, moral atomism vs. moral holism, the relation of ecological fact to environmental value, and so on.
... surrounded philosophical issues in environmental ethics: anthropocentric vs. nonanthro- pocentric value theory, moral atomism vs. moral holism, the relation of ecological fact to environmental value, and so on.
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Henry David Thoreau and John Muir certainly had argued for a morally charged human relationship with nature. But they had done so in essentially religious terms. Leopold's originality lies in his having expressed their moral proposition ...
Henry David Thoreau and John Muir certainly had argued for a morally charged human relationship with nature. But they had done so in essentially religious terms. Leopold's originality lies in his having expressed their moral proposition ...
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... and the "beauty" (as well as integrity and stability) of the biotic community is included among its most valued qualities in the famous summary moral maxim of the last section of Sand County's last essay, "The Land Ethic" (viii).
... and the "beauty" (as well as integrity and stability) of the biotic community is included among its most valued qualities in the famous summary moral maxim of the last section of Sand County's last essay, "The Land Ethic" (viii).
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It is certain that Leopold read Darwin, whose influence on his moral philosophy is most pronounced. And we know that he thought of himself as an ecologist (as indeed he was) and that he was a personal friend of Charles Elton, who, ...
It is certain that Leopold read Darwin, whose influence on his moral philosophy is most pronounced. And we know that he thought of himself as an ecologist (as indeed he was) and that he was a personal friend of Charles Elton, who, ...
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Rights are claims expressed by, or on behalf of, moral patients. "Nature," per se, is too ill-defined an "entity" to be even considered as a candidate for rights. Duties, on the other hand, belong to us as moral agents and ecosystems ...
Rights are claims expressed by, or on behalf of, moral patients. "Nature," per se, is too ill-defined an "entity" to be even considered as a candidate for rights. Duties, on the other hand, belong to us as moral agents and ecosystems ...
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Contents
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| 15 | |
II The Book | 89 |
III The Upshot | 155 |
IV The Impact | 219 |
Appendix | 275 |
Foreword | 281 |
Contributors | 291 |
Index | 295 |
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| Title | Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays |
| Author | J. Baird Callicott |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0299112330, 9780299112332 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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