...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...