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Living in Integrity: A Global Ethic to Restore a Fragmented Earth de Laura Westra

Living in Integrity: A Global Ethic to Restore a Fragmented Earth: Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy

Autor Laura Westra
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 ian 1998
This innovative book takes a new look at environmental ethics and the need for ecological and biological integrity. Laura Westra explores the necessity for radical alteration not only of interpersonal ethics, but also of social institutions and public policy. In the process, Westra denies the validity of majority rule in environmentally ethical concerns. Issues discussed in the book include the link between ecological integrity and human health; an environmental evaluation of business and technology; biotechnology and transgenics in agriculture and aquaculture; and the environmental ethics of the ancient Greeks and Kant. Living in Integrity is a valuable book for philosophers and environmentalists alike.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780847689279
ISBN-10: 0847689271
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 146 x 226 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Seria Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Part 1 Part 1
Chapter 2 Living with Integrity: The Problems and the Promise
Chapter 3 The Link between Ecological Integrity and Human Health in the Present and the Future: Second-Order Principles
Chapter 4 Environmental Risks, Rights, and the Failure of Liberal Democracy: Some Possible Remedies
Part 5 Part II
Chapter 6 Why We Need a Nonanthropocentric Environmental Evaluation of Technology for Public Policy
Chapter 7 Development and Environmental Racism: The Case of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni
Chapter 8 Biotechnology and Transgenics in Agriculture and Aquaculture: The Perspective from Ecosystem Integrity
Part 9 Part III
Chapter 10 The Greeks and Kant: The Quest for Compatible Ethics
Chapter 11 Integrity, Public Policy, and the Law: A Question of Sustainability
Chapter 12 From Living with Integrity to Living in Integrity: Second-Order Principles for a Global Ethic
Chapter 13 A Design for a Global Ethic
Chapter 14 Index

Recenzii

Living in Integrity is Professor Westra's sequel to her previous book An Environmental Proposal for Ethics, based upon the principles of ecological integrity. In this book, she meticulously spells out the practical and policy decisions which follow from the 'principle of integrity.' Westra persuasively argues that anthropocentric approaches are inadequate to effectively deal with the environmental crisis-that a shift to an ecocentric perspective will be necessary.
In displaying so graphically the social, political, and institutional dimensions of the problems which lie beneath the 'environmental' label, Laura Westra performs a signal service. She presses home some uncomfortable questions and offers challenging and honest answers. She debates an impressive range of issues in a manner at once vigorous and resourceful. Her judgments are forthright and unclouded. This is an enriching and rewarding book to read.
From Aristotle to aquaculture, Plato to petroleum, the sweep of this book is amazing. Westra places current concerns about the environment in the context of the great theories of moral philosophy, leading the reader to a deeper understanding of both.
This is a work rich in ideas . . . it is certainly stimulating to have the ecocentric position stated in such a forthright manner.
Westra's book offers both a candid assessment of and challenging solutions to environmental ills.
Living in Integrity is a useful and challenging addition to literature.
This book is bold and provocative.
This is a most enlightening book on the development of ecology as a branch of science which uses a thorough and original analytical approach to show us the complex relationship between the science and society over the last fifty years. It is therefore highly recommended reading not only for biologists and science historians, but also for anyone involved in social sciences who has an interest in environmental politics.