This volume provides a critique of the main, existing school of environmental ethics and seeks to build a more coherent and rigorous philosophical basis for future environmental policy.
"Applies Emmanuel Levinas's thought in approaching environmental philosophy from both humanistic and nonanthropocentric points of view, arguing that themes at the heart of his work--the significance of the ethical, responsibility, alterity, the vulnerability of the body, bearing…
Lawrence Johnson advocates a major change in our attitude toward the nonhuman world. He argues that nonhuman animals, and ecosystems themselves, are morally significant beings with interests and rights. The author considers recent work in environmental ethics in the introduction…
"This book advocates a major change in our attitude toward the nonhuman world. The author argues that not only individual organisms but certain holistic entities, such as species, ecosystems, and the biosphere as a whole, are entities in their own right and are thus morally sign…
Examines the North American Indian participation in the fur trade and traditional ecological practices.
Examines the North American Indian participation in the fur trade and traditional ecological practices.
"Buddhism is a tradition which has cultivated a profound sense of the interconnection of all life-forms in its doctrine of dependent origination. This teaching of interrelatedness may be a critical basis for the recovery of human reciprocity with nature and with all life-forms. …
"Buddhism is a tradition which has cultivated a profound sense of the interconnection of all life-forms in its doctrine of dependent origination. This teaching of interrelatedness may be a critical basis for the recovery of human reciprocity with nature and with all life-forms. …
"India, Hinduism's homeland, faces a host of environmental challenges, from deforestation and desertification to environmental stresses caused by urbanization, the construction of dams, and an increase in industrial pollution. This volume explores varied responses to these envir…