- 254 pages
- English
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Morality and the Environmental Crisis
About this book
The environmental crisis creates an unprecedented moral predicament: how to be a good person when our collective and individual actions contribute to immeasurable devastation and suffering. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources from philosophy, political theory, global religion, ecology, and contemporary spirituality, Roger S. Gottlieb explores the ethical ambiguities, challenges, and opportunities we face. Engagingly written, intellectually rigorous, and forcefully argued, this volume investigates the moral value of nature; the possibility of an 'ecological' democracy; how we treat animals; the demands and limits of individual responsibility and collective political change; contemporary ambiguities of rationality; and how to face environmental despair. In Morality and the Environmental Crisis, Gottlieb combines compassion for the difficulties of contemporary moral life with an unflinching ethical commitment to awareness and action.
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Ethics & Moral PhilosophyTable of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Environmental Crisis and Moral Life
- 2 Why Does Nature Matter?: Paths to an Environmental Ethic
- 3 The Spirit of Ecological Democracy
- 4 Can We Talk?: Understanding the ''Other Side'' in the Animal Rights Debates
- 5 Where Do We Draw the Line?: Limits and Virtues
- 6 Guilt and Responsibility
- 7 Changing the World: A Moral Primer on Environmental Political Activism
- 8 Dilemmas of Reason
- 9 Despair
- 10 Futures
- Index
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