I sincerely believe that the only environmental ethic worth having is your own -- and it is not your own unless you build it. Of course, it does not follow from this that all personally devised environmental ethics are "worth having".
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(3) Five approaches to environmental ethics (i.e., perspectives on man's relationship and responsibility to nature) -- viz. Anthropocentrism, Animal Liberation, Rights of Nature, Gaia-Centrism ("The Land Ethic"), Biophilia (evolved needs for nature).
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This collection was published in 1996, and today I read from Wilson's essay "Biophilia and the Environmental Ethic." ; Wilson's latest book, titled "The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth," reflects the increased urgency to address this issue.
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Environmental Ethics 3 (1981), pp. 113–128. 129. H. Rolston, III Philosophy gone wild, Prometheus Books, Buffalo (1989). 130. H. Rolston, III , Biophilia, ...
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Edward O. Wilson's latest book, The Future of Life, offers an encouraging vision that solutions to the environmental problems facing humanity are within reach. ... The biophilia gene: "The environmental values of secular and religious alike arise from the same innate attraction to nature."
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Sideris's incisive analysis opens up new possibilities for a more profound theology of nature and a more powerful, and appropriately loving, environmental ethic." -- Holmes Rolston III, University Distinguished Professor and professor of philosophy, Colorado State Universit ... biophilia hypothesis...
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Not that this theory eclipses all others, but in terms of biophilia it powerfully frames some new ideas, and recasts others in interesting directions. Finally, I discuss four structural developmental studies colleagues and I have recently conducted on environmental reasoning and values.
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With reference to the spirit we arrive at the connection between biophilia and the environmental ethic. The great philosophical divide in moral reasoning about the remainder of life is whether or not other species have an innate right to exist.
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Environmental Ethic; Fred Van Dyke; In a period of less than thirty years, the Judeo-Christian tradition was transformed from being perceived by scientific and popular culture as the cause of the ecologic crisis to being viewed as a major contributor to its solution.
www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2006/PSCF3-06VanDyke.pdf
Matthew Gowans and Philip Cafaro: A Latter-Day Saint Environmental Ethic ... Sanford S. Levy: The Biophilia Hypothesis and Anthropocentric Environmentalism...
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