The ideal of nature : debates about biotechnology and the environment / / edited by Gregory E. Kaebnick

• Pubblicazione: Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Disciplina: 179/.1
• Soggetto topico: Bioethics; Biotechnology - Moral and ethical aspects; Nature - Effect of human beings on
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): KaebnickGregory E.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Disposing nature or disposing of it? : reflections on the instruction of nature / Kate Soper -- In defense of living nature : finding common ground in a medieval tradition / Jean Porter -- Nature as absence : the logic of nature and culture in social contract theory / Bruce Jennings -- Human nature without theory / Gregory E. Kaebnick -- Preserving the distinction between nature and artifact / Eric Katz -- Why "nature" has no place in environmental philosophy / Steven Vogel -- The appeal to nature / Bonnie Steinbock -- Thinking like a mountain : nature, wilderness, and the virtue of humility / Paul Lauritzen -- He did it on hot dogs and beer : natural excellence in human athletic achievement / David Wasserman -- Sport, simulation, and EPO / Nicholas Agar -- Common-sense morality and the idea of nature : what we can learn from thinking about therapy / William A. Galston -- Rawls, sports, and liberal legitimacy / Thomas H. Murray and Peter Murray.
• Titolo autorizzato: The ideal of nature
• ISBN: 1-4214-0070-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463600603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II