Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: the place of environmental philosophy and its basic concepts
- 2 Future generations: what consideration do we owe them?
- 3 Animals: are they as morally valuable as human beings?
- 4 Living things: ethics for the non-human world
- 5 Community: how big is our moral world?
- 6 Natural things: the puzzle of what “natural” means, and whether humans belong to nature
- 7 Foundations: can there be a secular basis for the ideas of human dignity and intrinsic value in nature?
- 8 Origins: political, religious and cultural diagnoses of environmental problems
- 9 Beyond individual responsibility: governance and the affluenzic society
- Questions for discussion and revision
- Further reading
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: the place of environmental philosophy and its basic concepts
- 2 Future generations: what consideration do we owe them?
- 3 Animals: are they as morally valuable as human beings?
- 4 Living things: ethics for the non-human world
- 5 Community: how big is our moral world?
- 6 Natural things: the puzzle of what “natural” means, and whether humans belong to nature
- 7 Foundations: can there be a secular basis for the ideas of human dignity and intrinsic value in nature?
- 8 Origins: political, religious and cultural diagnoses of environmental problems
- 9 Beyond individual responsibility: governance and the affluenzic society
- Questions for discussion and revision
- Further reading
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Understanding Environmental Philosophy , pp. 228 - 234Publisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2010