| 1988 - 316 pages
...(including people) and their environment. The premise upon which this new ethical attitude rested was that "the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts." The first principle of conservation was "to preserve all the parts of the land mechanism." It was obvious... | |
| 1989 - 236 pages
...extend such rights to members of our ecological community. "All ethics so far evolved," wrote Leopold, "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... | |
| Roderick Frazier Nash - 1989 - 306 pages
...wildlife ecology, was among the first to see the connection clearly. "All ethics," he wrote in 1949, "rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts."2 With national origins steeped in the social contract theory of John Locke, Americans were... | |
| Holmes Rolston - 2012 - 408 pages
...lack of relational complexity. Leopold is right to insist, against Gleason's fortuitous juxtaposition, that "the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts."" Ecosystems are not as coherent as organisms but are not randomly fortuitous either; they fit together... | |
| Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - 930 pages
...such situations. Ethics are possibly a kind of community mstinct 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 co-operate (perhaps in order that there may be a... | |
| Paul A. Olson - 1990 - 340 pages
...principal idea upon which Leopold rests his land ethic is the ecological concept of a biotic community: "All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise:...is a member of a community of interdependent parts. . . . The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants,... | |
| Robin Attfield - 2011 - 276 pages
...sometimes he interprets this as the enlargement of the moral community. 'All ethics so far evolved rest on 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,... | |
| Matt Cartmill - 1996 - 352 pages
...organisms and the ecosystem as a whole would be granted rights and respected as ends in themselves: All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise:...is a member of a community of interdependent parts . . . The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants,... | |
| Gregory McIsaac, William R. Edwards - 1994 - 316 pages
...of conservation have no totally technical solution but require a fundamental extension of morality: "All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise:...is a member of a community of interdependent parts (biotic and abiotic)." "Quit thinking about decent land-use as solely an economic problem. Examine... | |
| Holmes Rolston - 1994 - 274 pages
...valuable because they feed into the concept of the "biotic community." "All ethics so far evolved rests upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts." But ethics has previously focused only on human society; we need now to learn community in environmental... | |
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