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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
J Baird Callicott |
| ISBN: | 0520085590 9780520085596 |
| OCLC Number: | 30318263 |
| Description: | xxiv, 285 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword / Tom Hayden -- 1. Introduction: The Notion of and Need for Environmental Ethics. Ethics and Environmental Ethics. The Practicality of Ethics. Traditional, Modern, and Postmodern Environmental Ethics. Comparative Environmental Ethics and the One-Many Problem -- 2. The Historical Roots of Western European Environmental Attitudes and Values. The Judeo-Christian Tradition. The Despotic Interpretation. The Stewardship Interpretation. The Citizenship Interpretation. The Stewardship Environmental Ethic. Greco-Roman Historical Roots. Mythology. Philosophy. Islam. Gaia Redux. Goddess Spirituality. The Gaia Hypothesis. The Earth Ethic -- 3. Environmental Attitudes and Values in South Asian Intellectual Traditions. Hinduism. Jainism. Buddhism -- 4. Traditional East Asian Deep Ecology. Taoism. Confucianism -- 5. Ecological Insights in East Asian Buddhism. Hua-yen. Tendai and Shingon. Zen. The Japanese and the Environment: A Paradox -- 6. Far Western Environmental Ethics. Polynesian Paganism. American Indian Land Wisdom. Lakota Shamanism. Ojibwa Totemism -- 7. South American Eco-Eroticism. North-South Comparative Philosophy. South American Ecologies of Mind. Tukano Systems Theory. Kayapo Agro-ecology -- 8. African Biocommunitarianism and Australian Dreamtime. The African Scene. A Paradox. The Unity in Diversity of African Thought. Yoruba Anthropo-theology. A San Etiquette of Freedom. An African Afterword. Australian Aboriginal Conservators. Elements of an Australian Worldview. An Australian Environmental Ethic -- 9. A Postmodern Evolutionary-Ecological Environmental Ethic. What Is Postmodernism? The One-Many Problem. A Genealogy of Science. The Postmodern Scientific Revolution. A Natural History of Environmental Ethics. The Postmodern Credentials of the Leopold Land Ethic -- 10. Traditional Environmental Ethics in Action. The Stewardship Environmental Ethic in Action. The Hindu Environmental Ethic in Action. The Buddhist Environmental Ethic in Action. The Sri Lanka Sarvodaya Movement. Buddhist Forest Conservation in Thailand. |
| Responsibility: | J. Baird Callicott. |
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