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Planet in peril : [electronic resource] essays in environmental ethics / edited by Dale Westphal, Fred Westphal.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Fort Worth, TX : Harcourt Brace, c1994.Description: vi, 265 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0030739039
  • 9780030739033
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 179/.1 20
LOC classification:
  • GE42 .P53 1994
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Contents:
pt. 1, Changes in attitude : toward a biocentric ethic -- The ecology of survival / Al Gore, Jr. -- The ethics of respect for nature / Paul W. Taylor -- On being morally considerable / Kenneth E. Goodpaster -- Do we need a land use ethic? / Mark Sagoff -- pt. 2, The wilderness : the inherent value of undeveloped nature -- The conceptual foundations of the land ethic / J. Baird Callicott -- The value of wilderness / William Godfrey-Smith -- Should trees have standing? : toward legal rights for natural objects / Christopher D. Stone -- pt. 3, Pollutions : cleansing the air, the waters, and the land -- People or penguins / William F. Baxter -- Cost-benefit analysis : an ethical critique / Steven Kelman -- Environmental business : an ethic for commerce / Holmes Rolston III -- pt. 4, The animals : the rights of our neighbors -- All animals are equal / Peter Singer -- Animal rights, human wrongs / Tom Regan -- Animal liberation : a triangular affair / J. Baird Callicott -- Why do species matter? / Lilly-Marlene Russow.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-265).

pt. 1, Changes in attitude : toward a biocentric ethic -- The ecology of survival / Al Gore, Jr. -- The ethics of respect for nature / Paul W. Taylor -- On being morally considerable / Kenneth E. Goodpaster -- Do we need a land use ethic? / Mark Sagoff -- pt. 2, The wilderness : the inherent value of undeveloped nature -- The conceptual foundations of the land ethic / J. Baird Callicott -- The value of wilderness / William Godfrey-Smith -- Should trees have standing? : toward legal rights for natural objects / Christopher D. Stone -- pt. 3, Pollutions : cleansing the air, the waters, and the land -- People or penguins / William F. Baxter -- Cost-benefit analysis : an ethical critique / Steven Kelman -- Environmental business : an ethic for commerce / Holmes Rolston III -- pt. 4, The animals : the rights of our neighbors -- All animals are equal / Peter Singer -- Animal rights, human wrongs / Tom Regan -- Animal liberation : a triangular affair / J. Baird Callicott -- Why do species matter? / Lilly-Marlene Russow.

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