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... moral atomism vs. moral holism, the relation 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 relation 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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Charles R. Darwin, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (New York: J. A. Hill and Company, 1904), 124. 4. See Tom Regan, "Ethical Vegetarianism and Commercial Animal Farming," in Contemporary Moral Problems, ed.
Charles R. Darwin, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (New York: J. A. Hill and Company, 1904), 124. 4. See Tom Regan, "Ethical Vegetarianism and Commercial Animal Farming," in Contemporary Moral Problems, ed.
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... and sense of urgency that were not yet present in 1933, but his fundamental thesis would remain the same: the time had come to regard land as more than mere property, and to exercise ethical restraint in our relations with it.
... and sense of urgency that were not yet present in 1933, but his fundamental thesis would remain the same: the time had come to regard land as more than mere property, and to exercise ethical restraint in our relations with it.
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Like the split- rail tradition, it was a reminder of the elemental man-earth relation, but in addition wild husbandry required ethical restraint in the use of tools, and thus had special cultural value for mechanized man.
Like the split- rail tradition, it was a reminder of the elemental man-earth relation, but in addition wild husbandry required ethical restraint in the use of tools, and thus had special cultural value for mechanized man.
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Contents
| 3 | |
| 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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