With Respect For Nature
Subtitle: Living As Part Of The Natural World (Suny Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: May 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780791464434
Subjects: Nature & existence of God; Hunting; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Respect; Philosophy; Moral and ethical aspects; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Movements - Existentialism; Animals / Pets; Environmental Science; Animal Rights; Animal welfare
First sentence: Some of the seminal work in what has come to be known as "animal rights" or "animal liberation" theory has involved extending to animals a moral status or a "respect" that has generally been accepted for human beings.
Description: "We eat, inevitably, at the expense of other living creatures. How can we take the lives of plants and animals while maintaining a proper respect for both ecosystems and the individuals who live in them - including ourselves? In this book philosopher J. Claude Evans challenges much of the accepted wisdom in environmental ethics and argues that human participation in the natural cycles of life and death can have positive moral value."--Jacket.