1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453523303321

Autore

Krebs Angelika <1961->

Titolo

Ethics of nature : a map / / Angelika Krebs ; with a foreword by Bernard Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : W. de Gruyter, , 1999

ISBN

3-11-080283-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Collana

Perspectives in analytical philosophy = Perspektiven der analytischen Philosophie ; ; Bd. 22

Disciplina

179/.1

Soggetti

Environmental ethics

Philosophy of nature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [139]-156) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Guest Foreword / Bernard Williams -- Synopsis of Argument -- Why an Ethics of Nature? -- The Philosophical Discipline of the Ethics of Nature -- The Objective of This Study -- Basic Concepts -- Nature -- A Definition of "Nature" for Environmental Ethics -- Oikos, Cosmos, and the Human Body -- Conservation versus Cultivation of Nature -- Ethics -- The Object of Ethics and the Distinction between Intrinsic and Instrumental Value -- Good Human Life and Right Human Life -- Good Human Life -- The Core -- Basic Options -- Luxury -- The Well-Being and the Agency Aspect of Good Human Life -- The Hedonistic Challenge -- Three Forms of Pleasure -- An Answer to the Hedonistic Challenge -- The Objection to Paternalism -- Moral Concern and Self-Interest -- The Hermeneutics and the Justification of Moral Culture -- Anthropocentrism versus Physiocentrism -- The Boundaries of the Moral Universe - "Extensional Anthropocentrism" versus "Extensional Physiocentrism" -- The Absolute Strategy in the Ethics of Nature - "Epistemic Anthropocentrism" versus "Epistemic Physiocentrism" -- Seven Anthropocentric Arguments for the Value of Nature -- The Basic Needs Argument -- Classical Thoughts -- The Argument -- Lost Peace with Nature? The Need for Environmental History -- Some Reasons Why the Basic Needs Argument Is Not as Effective as You Might Expect -- Two Versions of the Basic Needs Argument which Incorporate Intrinsic



Value Claims for Nature -- "Nature Knows Best" -- The Motivational Version -- The Aisthesis Argument -- Literary Thoughts -- The Argument.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910697360903321

Titolo

Coal-bed gas resources of the Rocky Mountain region [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Reston, Va.] : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , [2003]

Descrizione fisica

2 unnumbered pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

National assessment of oil and gas fact sheet

USGS fact sheet ; ; FS-158-02

Soggetti

Coalbed methane - United States

Coalbed methane - Rocky Mountains

Natural gas - United States

Natural gas - Rocky Mountains

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Aug. 8, 2008).

Supercedes USGS fact sheet FS-110-01.

"February 2003."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page [2]).