Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics (repost)
Paul W. Taylor, "Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0691150249 | 360 pages | PDF | 22,2 MB
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0691150249 | 360 pages | PDF | 22,2 MB
Some environmental philosophers stress our duty to prevent environmental deterioration because of our obligations to future generations of human inhabitants of the earth (cf. H. J. McCloskey's Ecological Ethics and Politics , LJ 10/1/82). In this book Taylor stresses our duties toward nature itself.
Taylor lays out an intricate but powerful argument according to which all life, including individual plants, have equal inherent worth. Although some attention is paid to practical applications, the book is rigorously philosophical and its appeal will be mainly to philosophers and other scholars. Sidney Gendin, Philosophy Dept., Eastern Michigan Univ., Ypsilanti