1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996212643903316

Titolo

Roma aeterna : Kultur-Magazin der Marianischen Kongregation Augsburg / Hrsg.: Marianische Kongregation e.V. - Arbeitsgemeinschaft im Bistum Augsburg, Sektion für Kultur: Collegium Romanum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Augsburg, : Marianische Kongregation e.V.

Augsburg, : ˜F. X.œ Köhler, 2005-

Gessertshausen, : Marianische Kongregation e.V., 7.2005

Descrizione fisica

Online-Ressource

Classificazione

8,1

Disciplina

900

Soggetti

Zeitschrift

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Gesehen am 23.08.11



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910157429403321

Autore

James Simon P.

Titolo

Environmental philosophy : an introduction / / Simon P. James

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Polity, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-7456-9139-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Classificazione

PHI009000

Disciplina

333.701

Soggetti

Environmental sciences - Philosophy

Environmental ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Dedication""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction: What is Environmental Philosophy?""; ""Nature""; ""Theory and practice""; ""Outline of chapters""; ""Notes""; ""Further reading""; ""1: Animal Suffering, and Why it Matters""; ""Eating without pleasure, crying without pain""; ""Singer's utilitarian case for animal liberation""; ""Vegetarianism""; ""Summary""; ""Notes""; ""Further reading""; ""2: Beyond Animal Liberation""; ""Racism, sexism � speciesism?""; ""The moral significance of killing""; ""Regan's case for animal rights""

""Flourishing""""Duties to wild animals""; ""Summary""; ""Notes""; ""Further reading""; ""3: Biocentrism and Ecocentrism""; ""Life""; ""Ecosystems""; ""Biological species""; ""Summary""; ""Notes""; ""Further reading""; ""4: Questions of Value""; ""Ecosystem services and the value of places""; ""Objectivity and subjectivity""; ""Summary""; ""Notes""; ""Further reading""; ""5: How Should One Live?""; ""Environmental virtue ethics""; ""Buddhism and compassion""; ""Humility""; ""Attention""; ""Summary""; ""Notes""; ""Further reading""; ""6: The Aesthetics of Nature""

""Disinterestedness and engagement""""Form, knowledge and the beauty of clouds""; ""Aesthetics and morality""; ""Summary""; ""Notes""; ""Further reading""; ""7: Nature, Wild and Restored""; ""Nature, revisited""; ""A very short history of the received wilderness idea""; ""Sceptical responses""; ""Wildness""; ""Environmental restoration"";



""Summary""; ""Notes""; ""Further reading""; ""8: Climate Change""; ""Climate change as a moral issue""; ""Responses""; ""�My emissions make no difference�""; ""Population""; ""Obligations to future generations""; ""Climate change and the natural world""

""Summary""""Notes""; ""Further reading""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""End User License Agreement""

Sommario/riassunto

Climate change, habitat loss, rising extinction rates - such problems call for more than just new policies and practices. They raise fundamental questions about the world and our place in it. What, for instance, is the natural world? Do we humans belong to it? Which parts of it are we morally obliged to protect?   Drawing on an exceptionally wide range of sources, from virtue ethics to Buddhism, leading environmental philosopher Simon P. James sets out to answer these vitally important questions.   The book begins with a discussion of animal minds, before moving on to explore our moral relati