Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical EssaysUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1987 M09 1 - 320 pages The first sustained study of Leopold's seminal book as well as a work of art, philosophy, and social commentary. |
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Page ix
... moral atomism vs. moral holism , the rela- tion of ecological fact to environmental value , and so on . This book provides me with an opportunity to share with a larger audience one of my previously published articles on Leopold's ...
... moral atomism vs. moral holism , the rela- tion of ecological fact to environmental value , and so on . This book provides me with an opportunity to share with a larger audience one of my previously published articles on Leopold's ...
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... 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 exclusively in scientific terms — as Wallace Stegner ...
... 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 exclusively in scientific terms — as Wallace Stegner ...
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... moral maxim of the last section of Sand County's last essay , " The Land Ethic " ( viii ) . Leopold's contribu- tion , however , to natural aesthetics has been scarcely acknowl- edged or appreciated , in part because the " Conservation ...
... moral maxim of the last section of Sand County's last essay , " The Land Ethic " ( viii ) . Leopold's contribu- tion , however , to natural aesthetics has been scarcely acknowl- edged or appreciated , in part because the " Conservation ...
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... 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 , in the late twenties , articulated , more fully than anyone ...
... 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 , in the late twenties , articulated , more fully than anyone ...
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... 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 are specifiable , albeit complex ...
... 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 are specifiable , albeit complex ...
Contents
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II The Book | 89 |
III The Upshot | 155 |
IV The Impact | 219 |
Appendix | 275 |
Foreword | 281 |
Contributors | 291 |
Index | 295 |
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