Matthew R. Foster

The Human Relationship to Nature

The Limit of Reason, the Basis of Value, and the Crisis of Environmental Ethics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Environmental problems compel examination of three contrasting patterns of moral reasoning concerning the human relationship to nature: the currently implemented Progress Ethic, and the proposed alternatives of a Stewardship Ethic and Connection Ethic. But none of these deliver all they promise, whether in theory or practice or both, because all dubiously presume that moral reason is commensurate with nature, and that the value of natural entities is an intrinsic property. Matthew R. Foster argues that resolution of this crisis requires reaching beyond the limit of reason, and acknowledging value to be not a noun, but a verb about the incomparable relation of two entities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 492
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 859g
• ISBN-13: 9780739164952
• ISBN-10: 0739164953
• Artikelnr.: 45508852

Autorenporträt

By Matthew R. Foster

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I TASK, TOOLS, AND PLAN Chapter One Task: What Should Be
the Human Relationship to Nature? Chapter Two Tools: The Way of Moral
Reasoning Chapter Three Plan: Comparative Testing of Three Ethics PART II
THREE ETHICS Chapter Four The Progress Ethic Chapter Five The Stewardship
Ethic Chapter Six The Connection Ethic PART III THE UNDERLYING PROBLEM AND
A PROPOSAL Chapter Seven Assessment: Comparison of Three Ethics Chapter
Eight Foundations: The Meta-Ethical Problem in Each Ethic Chapter Nine
Foundation: The Shared Meta-Ethical Problem and a Proposal PART IV TOWARD A
NEW ETHIC Chapter Ten Sorting Resources Chapter Eleven New Perspectives on
Four Variables Chapter Twelve A New Environmental Ethic Appendix The Moral
Argument in Four Environmental Ethics