 | Calgary Institute for the Humanities - 1993 - 215 pages
...all, can supplant them entirely.) The classic statement of this holistic view is that of Aldo Leopold: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise" (1970, 262). Ethical standing belongs not (or not just) to individual organisms but to the interrelated... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works - 1978 - 1810 pages
...enjoyment of the harvest of each year but not of destruction of its source. Aldo Leopold said it best: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." Many Federal agencies have recognized the need to "consider" wildlife in carrying out their overall... | |
 | Valerie Harms - 2005 - 219 pages
...for food or research the answer. In the end Aldo Leopold's most famous maxim matters most: "a thing's right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. "98 Religions have historically supported ethical respect for animals and the whole of creation. Nevertheless,... | |
 | Braden Allenby - 2013 - 224 pages
...values. Thus, many environmentalists, especially deep greens, elevate the dictum of Aldo Leopold — "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong otherwise." — to the level of a, even the, principal value. Because of the internal cohesiveness... | |
 | Julian H. Franklin - 2005 - 188 pages
...thinkers. Aldo Leopold is illustrative of this latter tendency. "A thing is right," 1O6 he states, "when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." The implications of this view include the clear prospect that the individual may be sacrificed to the... | |
 | Ronald D. Sandler, Philip Cafaro - 2005 - 260 pages
...naturalizing of virtue is no mere literary conceit but, rather, the very foundation of Leopold's land ethic. "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community," he writes. "It is wrong when it tends otherwise."25 Leopold identifies these three qualities as key... | |
 | Joachim Schummer, Davis Baird - 2006 - 480 pages
...Holmes Rolston, III, and Robert Elliot provide archetypical articulations. Leopold, for example, states "a thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...community, it is wrong when it tends otherwise" (Leopold 1987, pp. 224-5). Rolston claims that "systemic nature is valuable intrinsically, as a projective system... | |
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A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. 
