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Thinking Like a Planet The Land Ethic and the Earth Ethic

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01.02.2014

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01.02.2014

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Oxford University Press

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394

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  • Produktbild: Thinking Like a Planet

    • Introduction

    • PART 1: THE LAND ETHIC

    • 1. A Sand County Almanac

    • 1.1 The Author

    • 1.2 The Provenance of the Book

    • 1.3 The Unity of A Sand County Almanac-An Evolutionary-Ecological Worldview

    • 1.4 The Argument of the Foreword-Toward Worldview Remediation

    • 1.5 The Argument in Part I-The Inter-subjective Biotic Community-Introduced

    • 1.6 The Argument of Part I-The Inter-subjective Biotic Community-Driven Home

    • 1.7 The Argument in Part II-The Evolutionary Aspect: Time and Telos

    • 1.8 The Argument in Part II-The Evolutionary Aspect: Beauty, Kinship, and Spirituality

    • 1.9 The Argument of Part II-The Ecological Aspect

    • 1.10 The Argument of Part II-The Pivotal Trope: "Thinking Like a Mountain"

    • 1.11 Norton's Narrow Interpretation of Leopold's Worldview-remediation Project

    • 1.12 The Argument of Part III-To "See" with the Ecologist's "Mental Eye"

    • 1.13 The Argument of Part III-Axiological Implications of the Evolutionary-Ecological Worldview

    • 1.14 The Argument of Part III-The Normative Implications of the Evolutionary-Ecological Worldview

    • 1.15 The Persuasive Power of Leopold's Style of Writing

    • 1.16 The New Shifting Paradigm in Ecology and the Evolutionary-Ecological Worldview

    • 1.17 The Challenge Before Us

    • 2. The Land Ethic: A Critical Account of Its Philosophical and Evolutionary Foundations

    • 2.1 The Odysseus Vignette

    • 2.2 Expansion of the Scope of Ethics Over Time (?)

    • 2.3 Ethical Criteria/Norms/Ideals versus (un)Ethical Behavior/Practice

    • 2.4 Ethics Ecologically (Biologically) Speaking

    • 2.5 Darwin's Account of the Origin of Ethics by Natural Selection

    • 2.6 Darwin's Account of the Extension of Ethics

    • 2.7 The Community Concept in Ecology

    • 2.8 The Humean Foundations of Darwin's Evolutionary Account of the Moral Sense

    • 2.9 Universalism and Relativism: Hume and Darwin

    • 2.10 How Hume Anticipates Darwin's Account of the Origin and Expansion of Ethics

    • 2.11 Shades of the Social-Contract Theory of Ethics in "The Land Ethic"

    • 2.12 Individualism in (Benthamic) Utilitarianism and (Kantian) Deontology

    • 2.13 Holism in Hume's Moral Philosophy

    • 2.14 Holism in "The Land Ethic"

    • 2.15 The Land Ethic and the Problem of Ecofascism Resolved

    • 2.16 Prioritizing Cross-community Duties and Obligations

    • 2.17 Is The Land Ethic Anthropocentric or Non-anthropocentric?

    • 3. The Land Ethic (an Ought): A Critical Account of Its Ecological Foundations (an Is)

    • 3.1 Moore's Naturalistic Fallacy

    • 3.2 Hume's Is/Ought Dichotomy and the Land Ethic

    • 3.3 How Hume Bridges the Lacuna Between Is-statements and Ought-statements

    • 3.4 How Kant Infers Ought-statements from Is-statements in Hypothetical Imperatives

    • 3.5 The Specter of Hume's Is/Ought Dichotomy Finally Exorcised

    • 3.6 The Roles of Reason and Feeling in Hume's Ethical Theory Generally and Leopold's Land Ethic Particularly

    • 3.7 How the General Theory of Evolution Informs the Land Ethic

    • 3.8 How Ecosystem Ecology Informs the Land Ethic-Beyond the Biota

    • 3.9 How Ecosystem Ecology Informs the Land Ethic-A Fountain of Energy

    • 3.10 How Organismic Ecology Informs the Land Ethic

    • 3.11 How Mechanistic Ecology Informs the Land Ethic

    • 3.12 How the Ecosystem Paradigm Returns Ecology to Its Organismic Roots

    • 3.13 How Leopold Anticipates Hierarchy Theory in "The Land Ethic"

    • 3.14 Ecological Ontology and the Community Paradigm in Ecology

    • 3.15 Ecological Ontology and the Ecosystem Paradigm in Ecology

    • 3.16 The "Flux of Nature" Paradigm Shift in Contemporary Ecology and "The Land Ethic"

    • 3.17 A Revised Summary Moral Maxim for the Land Ethic

    • 4. The Land Ethic and the Science of Ethics: From the Seventeenth through the Twentieth Centuries

    • 4.1 Hobbes's Science of Ethics

    • 4.2 Locke's Science of Ethics

    • 4.3 Hume's Science of Ethics

    • 4.4 Kant's Science of Ethics

    • 4.5 The Utilitarian Science of Ethics

    • 4.6 How Logical Positivism Cleaved Apart Science and Ethics

    • 4.7 Ayer's Migration of a Science of Ethics from Philosophy to the Social Sciences

    • 4.8 Kohlberg's Social Science of Ethics

    • 4.9 Gilligan's Social Science of Ethics

    • 4.10 Group Selection in Darwin's Science of Ethics

    • 4.11 Group Selection in Wynne-Edwards's Evolutionary Biology

    • 4.12 Williams's Attack on Group Selection

    • 4.13 Huxley's and Williams's Anti-natural (and Anti-logical) View of Ethics

    • 4.14 Sociobiology: Wilson's Neo-Darwinian Account of the Origin of Ethics

    • 4.15 The Fallacies of Division and Composition in the Sociobiological Science of Ethics

    • 4.16 Sociobiology and Biological Determinism

    • 4.17 The Evolutionary Foundations of the Land Ethic in Light of the Modern and the New Syntheses in Evolutionary Biology

    • 5. The Land Ethic and the Science of Ethics: In the Light of Evolutionary Moral Psychology

    • 5.1 Singer's Response to the Evolutionary Account of Ethics

    • 5.2 Rachels' Response to the Evolutionary Account of Ethics

    • 5.3 Darwin's Alternative to Animal Ethics à la Singer and Rachels

    • 5.4 Midgley's Alternative to Animal Ethics à la Singer and Rachels

    • 5.5 A Community-based Analysis of Ethical Partiality

    • 5.6 A Community-based Analysis of Ethical Impartiality

    • 5.7 Dennett, Singer, Arnhart, and Haidt on the Philosophical Implications of Darwinism

    • 5.8 Group Selection Revisited

    • 5.9 The Analogy between Language and Ethics

    • 5.10 Hume on Nature and Nurture in Ethics

    • 5.11 Post-Positivist Ethical Absolutism

    • 5.12 Wherefore Post-Positivist Ethical Rationalism and Exclusionism

    • 5.13 Moral Norms in Humean Ethics Analogous to Medical Norms

    • 5.14 Critically Appraising Moral Norms in Terms of Intra-social Functionality and Inter-social Harmony

    • 5.15 A Humean-Darwinian Science of Ethics and Constrained Cultural Relativism

    • 5.16 The Philosophical Foundations of the Land Ethic Vindicated by the Contemporary Science of Ethics, but Limited to Ecological Spatial and Temporal Scales

    • PART II: THE EARTH ETHIC

    • 6. The Earth Ethic: A Critical Account of Its Philosophical Foundations

    • 6.1 Leopold and Biblical Tropes

    • 6.2 Ezekiel and Virtue Ethics-Both Individualistc and Holistic

    • 6.3 Ezekiel and Responsibility to Future Generations

    • 6.4 Ezekiel and Deontological Respect for the Earth as a Living Thing

    • 6.5 Leopold Dimly Envisions Hierarchy Theory in "Some Fundamentals"

    • 6.6 How Leopold Interprets P. D. Ouspensky and His Book, Tertium Organum

    • 6.7 The Earth's Soul or Consciousness

    • 6.8 A Scalar Resolution of a "Dead" Earth versus the Earth as a "Living Being"

    • 6.9 Respect for Life as Such

    • 6.10 Leopold's Charge that Both Religion and Science are Anthropocentric

    • 6.11 How Leopold Ridicules Metaphysical Anthropocentrism

    • 6.12 Leopold's Use of Irony as an Instrument of Ridicule

    • 6.13 Norton's Reading of Leopold as an Anthropocentric Pragmatist

    • 6.14 Ouspensky, Leopold, and "Linguistic Pluralism"-according to Norton

    • 6.15 Leopold's Return to Virtue Ethics

    • 6.16 Leopold's Non-anthropocentric Anthropocentrism

    • 6.17 The Leopold Earth Ethic: A Summary and a Preview

    • 7. The Earth Ethic: A Critical Account of Its Scientific Metaphysical Foundations

    • 7.1 Ouspensky's Metaphysics and the Four-dimensional Space-time Continuum

    • 7.2 Vernadsky's Metaphysics and the Four-dimensional Space-time Continuum: Space

    • 7.3 Vernadsky's Metaphysics and the Four-dimensional Space-time Continuum: Time

    • 7.4 Vernadsky's Doctrine of the Abiogenesis of Life on Earth

    • 7.5 Venadsky's Anti-vitalism

    • 7.6 Vernadsky's Lasting Contribution to Biogeochemistry and Gaian Science

    • 7.7 Teilhard's Concept of the Noösphere

    • 7.8 Vernadsky's Concept of the Noösphere

    • 7.9 Scientific Knowledge as a Planetary Phenomenon

    • 7.10 The Biosphere Crosses the Atlantic

    • 7.11 The Advent of the Gaia Hypothesis

    • 7.12 The Biosphere and Gaia Ecologized

    • 7.13 Vernadsky's Biosphere and Lovelock's Gaia: Similarities and Differences

    • 7.14 Leopold's Living Thing, Vernadsky's Biosphere, and Lovelock's Gaia

    • 7.15 Is the Gaia Hypothesis Necessarily Teleological and Anthropomorphic?

    • 7.16 Varieties of the Earth's Soul or Consciousness

    • 7.17 Personal Speculations on the Earth's Soul or Consciousness

    • 8. The Earth Ethic: A Critical Account of Its Biocentric Deontological Foundations

    • 8.1 Leopold's Biocentric Earth Ethic and the Living Earth

    • 8.2 Gaian Ontology

    • 8.3 Gaian Norms

    • 8.4 Schweitzer's Reverence-for-Life Ethic

    • 8.5 Schweitzer's Reverence-for-Life Ethic Rooted in the Metaphysics of Schopenhauer

    • 8.6 Feinberg's Conativism

    • 8.7 Feinberg's Conativism as a Foundation for a Biocentric Earth Ethic?

    • 8.8 Goodpaster's Biocentrism

    • 8.9 Goodpaster's Holistic Biocentrism as a Foundation for a Biocentric Earth Ethic?

    • 8.10 Feinberg the Tie that Binds Schweitzer and Goodpaster

    • 8.11 Taylor's Individualistic Biocentrism and Regan's Case for Animal Rights

    • 8.12 Taylor's Deontology and Teleological Centers of Life

    • 8.13 Taylor's Biocentrism as a Foundation for a Leopold Earth Ethic?

    • 8.14 Rolston's Biocentrism as a Foundation for a Leopold Earth Ethic?

    • 8.15 Goodpaster's Biocentrism Provides the Best Theoretical Support for a Non-anthropocentric Earth Ethic

    • 9. The Earth Ethic: A Critical Account of Its Anthropocentric Foundations: The Natural Contract and Environmental Virtue Ethics

    • 9.1 No Need to Patronize Gaia with Biocentric Moral Considerability

    • 9.2 The Concept of Anthropocentrism Revisited

    • 9.3 War and Peace

    • 9.4 The Social Contract: The Ancient and Modern Theories

    • 9.5 Du Contrat Social au Contrat Naturel

    • 9.6 War or Peace?

    • 9.7 The French Connection: Larrÿre

    • 9.8 The French Connection: Latour

    • 9.9 The French-Canadian Connection: Dussault

    • 9.10 Virtue Ethics

    • 9.11 Aristotelian Virtue Ethics

    • 9.12 Environmental Virtue Ethics

    • 9.13 Holistic Virtue Ethics: Self-respecting Crafts

    • 9.14 Holistic Virtue Ethics: The Polis as a Social Whole

    • 9.15 Holistic Virtue Ethics: Nomos versus Phusis

    • 9.16 Holistic Virtue Ethics: Self-respecting Societies

    • 9.17 The Dialectic of Social-Contract Theory and Virtue Ethics

    • 10. The Earth Ethic: A Critical Account of Its Anthropocentric Foundations--The limits of Rational Individualism

    • 10.1 The Year was 1988 and Serres and Jamieson were the First Philosophical Responders

    • 10.2 Jamieson Frames the Theoretical Problem: The Legacy of Smith-and-Jones Ethical Theory

    • 10.3 Jamieson Suggests an Alternative Moral Philosophy-Virtue Ethics

    • 10.4 The Moral Ontology and Logic of Smith-and-Jones Ethical Thinking

    • 10.5 The Essence-and-Accident Moral Ontology of Rational Individualism

    • 10.6 Homo Economicus and Homo Ethicus-Two Sides of the Same Rational Coin

    • 10.7 Saving Rational Individualism: Moral Mathematics

    • 10.8 Saving Rational Individualism: Proximate Ethical Holism

    • 10.9 The Failure of Rational Individualism: Protracted Spatial Scale

    • 10.10 The Failure of Rational Individualism: Protracted Temporal Scale

    • 10.11 The Role of "Theoretical Ineptitude" in Gardiner's Perfect Moral Storm

    • 11. The Earth Ethic: A Critical Account of Its Anthropocentric Foundations--Responsibility to Future Generations and for Global Human Civilization

    • 11.1 Moral Ontology: Relationally Defined and Constituted Moral Beings

    • 11.2 Moral Ontology: Ethical Holism

    • 11.3 Moral Psychology: The Moral Sentiments

    • 11.4 Responsibility to Immediate Posterity

    • 11.5 Responsibility to the Unknown Future Equals Responsibility for Global Human Civilization

    • 11.6 Summary and Conclusion

    • Appendix

    • "Some Fundamentals of Conservation in the Southwest"--by Aldo Leopold

    • Notes

    • Index