Doing environmental ethics
By: Robert Traer
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813347417; 9780813347424
Subjects: Environmentalism; Moral and ethical aspects; Environmental ethics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / General
Description: "Doing Environmental Ethics offers a way to face the earth's ecological crisis that draws on environmental science, economic theory, international law, and religious teachings, as well as philosophical arguments. It engages students in constructing ethical presumptions based on our duty (to other persons and species and also to ecosystems), our character (personal virtues), our relationships (with other persons and nature), and our rights (to sustainable development and a healthy environment). Then it tests these moral presumptions by predicting the likely consequences of acting on them"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.