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9781119122708 |
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paperback |
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PCUS |
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L47 2022 |
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Lee, Wendy Lynne |
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author |
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This is environmental ethics : |
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an introduction / |
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Wendy Lynne Lee |
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Canada : |
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John Wiley and Sons, Inc. |
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2022 |
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xii, 323 pages ; |
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22 cm. |
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Includes index |
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Acknowledgments x About the Companion Website xii Introduction: Environmental Ethics in the Era of Ecological Crisis 1 One Planet, Many Worlds 1 The Time Is Now 4 Environmental Ethics Is about the Present and the Future 7 The Climate Crisis Is the Greatest Moral Challenge Humanity Has Ever Faced 10 We Can Change 14 Seven Basic Premises 17 Seven Key Objectives 20 Summary and Questions 22 Annotated Bibliography 24 Online Resources 25 1 Moral Principles and the Life Worth Living 30 1.1 Philosophy and the Environment 30 1.1.1 Philosophy and the Life Worth Living 30 1.1.2 The Precautionary Principle 35 1.2 Human Chauvinism versus Responsible Human-Centeredness 37 1.2.1 Human-Centeredness: Taking Responsibility 37 1.2.2 The Desirable Future 38 1.3 An Aerial View of Moral Extensionism 40 1.3.1 Is Moral Extensionism a Good Idea? 40 1.3.2 The Problem of Sentience 42 1.3.3 What Counts as a Living Thing? 44 1.3.4 Summary and Questions 49 Annotated Bibliography 50 Online Resources 54 2 Two Examples of Moral Extensionism: Peter Singer, Tom Regan, and Their Critics 58 2.1 The Capacity to Suffer: The Utilitarian Extensionism of Peter Singer 58 2.1.1 What Is Moral Extensionism? 58 2.1.2 Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation and the Principle of Equality 61 2.1.3 Weighing Interests and Predicting Consequences 64 2.1.4 Moral Extensionism and the Climate Crisis 67 2.1.5 How Do I Know a Thing Can Suffer? 68 2.2 “Subject-of-a-life”: The Kantian Extensionism of Tom Regan 72 2.2.1 The Case for Animal Rights and Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative 72 2.2.2 A Subject-of-a-life 74 2.2.3 Whose Subject-of-a-life Matters? 82 2.2.4 Subjecthood, Intellectual Wherewithal— and Zombies 85 2.2.5 A Feminist Critique of the Subject-of-a-life Criterion for Moral Considerability 86 2.2.6 Summary and Questions 89 Annotated Bibliography 92 Online Resources 95 3 Two More Examples of Moral Extensionism: Christopher Stone, Holmes Rolston III, and Their Critics 99 3.1 The Rights of Trees: The “Moral Standing” Extensionism of Christopher Stone 99 3.1.1 Moral Extensionism, the Concept of “Wilderness,” and Human Chauvinism 99 3.1.2 Do Trees Have Rights? The Portability of Moral Standing 106 3.1.3 Moral Standing versus Consequences/Rights versus Goals: What Matters More? 111 3.1.4 Moral Standing and the Concept of the Future 114 3.1.5 The Interests and Rights of the Voiceless 119 3.2 Respect for Life: The “Good of Its Own” Extensionism of Holmes Rolston III 123 3.2.1 Respect for Life and an “Ethic for Species” 123 3.2.2 Valuing the Threat of Extinction over the Capacity for Suffering 126 3.2.3 Is a “Species Line” a Living System? 131 3.3 Summary and Questions 133 Annotated Bibliography 136 Online Resources 138 4 Two Examples of an Ecocentric Ethic: Aldo Leopold, Arne Naess, and Their Critics 143 4.1 Human-Centeredness, Human Chauvinism, and Ecocentrism 143 4.1.1 Ecocentrism and the Limits of Moral Extensionism 143 4.1.2 Ecocentrism as Psychic Transformation and Moral Paradigm Shift 147 4.2 Aldo Leopold, Ecological Conscience, and the “Plain Citizen” 152 4.2.1 The Role of Language in Ecocentric Thinking 152 4.2.2 Scientific Knowledge and the Ecocentric Disposition 156 4.2.3 Thinking Like a Mountain, or Not 160 4.2.4 Ecocentrism, the Principle of Utility, and the Patriarchal Social Order 164 4.3 Arne Naess: Deep Ecology and the Eight-point Platform 168 4.3.1 The Eight-point Platform 168 4.3.2 The Ecocentric Dichotomy 176 4.4 The Authoritarian Politics of the Eight-point Platform 182 4.4.1 Ecocentric Tyranny and Human Population Control 182 4.4.2 Does Environmental Crisis Justify Ecocentric Policies or Laws? 185 4.4.3 Summary and Questions 190 Annotated Bibliography 194 Online Resources 198 5 From the Ecocentric Endgame to Eco-phenomenology202 5.1 The Radicalized Ecocentrism of Derrick Jensen 202 5.1.1 Blow up the Dams 202 5.1.2 The Environmentalism of the Civilized 207 5.1.3 The Ethics of Human Population, of Life and Death 212 5.2 Worth: A Value Intrinsic to Living Things or a Weapon of Consent? 218 5.2.1 “We Are at War.” 218 5.2.2 After the End 226 5.3 Why Experience Matters: John Dewey, David Wood, and Kath Weston 229 5.3.1 What Is Eco-phenomenology? 229 5.3.2 John Dewey and the Aesthetic in Experience 233 5.3.3 David Wood’s Eco-phenomenology 238 5.3.4 Kath Weston: The Feel of Experience versus the Force of Principle 244 5.3.5 Animate Planet and the Menace of Moral Relativism 246 5.4 Eco-phenomenology and the Problem of Pseudoscience: Why Ethics Must Be Rooted in Knowledge 252 5.5 Summary and Questions 256 Annotated Bibliography 260 Online Resources 263 6 Environmental Justice: Ecological Feminism, Social Justice, and Animal Rights 268 6.1 Climate Change and Environmental Justice 268 6.2 Ecological Feminism: Intersectional Analysis and Environmental Justice 271 6.2.1 Environmental Crisis and Structural Inequality 271 6.2.2 Threads of Moral Extensionism and of Ecocentrism 274 6.3 Groundbreaking Frameworks: Karen Warren and Carol Adams 275 6.3.1 Laying Bare the Logic of Domination 275 6.3.2 The Naturalized Fictions that Imperil Us 279 6.4 The Logic of Domination, Nostalgia, Resentment, and Privilege: Jordan Peterson 280 6.4.1 Antithesis of “The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living” 280 6.4.2 Sophism in Defense of Climate Change “Skepticism” 283 6.4.3 12 Rules for Life: Human Chauvinism, Speciesism, and Heteropatriarchy 285 6.5 Inseparable: Environmental Ethics and the Quest for Social and Economic Justice 288 6.5.1 The Deep Roots of the “Dominance Hierarchy” 288 6.5.2 Environmental Ethics and the Quest to De-naturalize the Logic of Domination 290 6.6 Human-Centeredness, the Aesthetic in Experience, and the Desirable Future 294 6.6.1 The Aesthetic Value of Natural Objects as a Vital Element of an Ecofeminist Ethic 294 6.6.2 The Standpoint of the Subjugated 299 6.6.3 We Must Do Better 302 6.7 Summary and Questions 302 Annotated Bibliography 306 Online Resources 310 Index 317 |
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"Philosophy and the life worth living While many disciplines have a vested interest in the environment, its inhabitants and ecosystems, its biotic diversity, and its future stability, it falls to philosophy perhaps more than to any other to offer organizing concepts for a viable-actionable, livable, realistic-environmental ethic. Ethics isn't about what merely is the case, but what should be. As an organizing feature of our ways of life, moral decision-making always has one foot in the context or conditions of our present actions and another pointed toward the future. A life that lacks self-reflection concerning our place in the many contexts or roles we occupy, the impacts of our decisions on our relationships with others, human and nonhuman, present and future, is not as likely, as Socrates might have put it, to be a life worth living. Even from the point of view of simple self-interest, such a life is bound to reap more pain than pleasure, more sorrow than joy. The reason, of course, is that life on planet Earth includes more than human beings and relationships. Our self-interested motives and the consequences that follow from our actions are rarely constrained to ourselves alone. Our lives include values that reach beyond the moral, for example, the aesthetic, the economic, the social, and the civic. As our recent confrontation with the Covid-19 pandemic surely reminds us, we cannot value our own health without valuing that of others, and as the climate crisis illustrates more clearly with each firenado, tsunami, or bomb cyclone, human actions have impact well beyond single communities, regions, and countries. Every time we sit down to eat, buy a car, read a book, go on vacation-every ordinary thing we do-is woven throughout with the often invisible labors of other people, with institutions like governments, and systems of economic exchange that inform virtually every action, and with nonhuman nature, living and non-living, plant life and sentient animal. Our bodies bleed these intimate relationships; our cars run on them; our books are woven of fibers extracted from the wood of an industry that threatens several endangered species. Our aspirations are made realizable through the labor and resources of countless others, most of whom we'll never see or even know. Some are exploited in developing world cell phone cities, banana plantations, diamond mines, sneaker factories, and sweat shops. Others become characters in dystopian novels and films that explore environmental apocalypse, the consequences of uncontrollable viral outbreak, species extinctions, or war over water scarcity. In these, the life worth living is displaced by stories of hardship and survival that often seem closer that we'd like to admit to the lives of people and their communities in the world as it is. They warn us of a world we do not want, but that the trajectory of our current environmental crises promise is coming. A robust practicable environmental ethic cannot save us from some of the crises we have already set into motion, but it can help us formulate plans of action that will blunt some of the impact and, if we act with well-informed deliberation and urgency, see our way to a more sustainable and more just future. In the spirit, then, of a modestly modified version of Socrates' claim, here are some important ideas that inform this work"-- Provided by publisher |
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Environmental ethics |