With Respect For Nature: Living As Part Of The Natural World (suny Series In Environmental Philosophy And Ethics)
by J Claude Evans /
2005 / English / PDF
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We eat, inevitably, at the expense of other living creatures. How
can we take the lives of plants and animals while maintaining a
proper respect for both ecosystems and the individuals who live in
them--including ourselves? In this book philosopher J. Claude Evans
challenges much of the accepted wisdom in environmental ethics and
argues that human participation in the natural cycles of life and
death can have positive moral value. With a guide for the
nonphilosophical reader, and set against the background of careful
and penetrating critiques of Albert Schweitzer's principle of
reverence for life and Paul Taylor's philosophy of respect for
nature, Evans uses hunting and catch-and-release fishing as test
cases in calling for a robust sense of membership in the natural
world. The result is an approachable, existential philosophy that
emphasizes the positive value of human involvement in natural
processes in which life and death, giving and receiving, self and
other are intertwined.
We eat, inevitably, at the expense of other living creatures. How
can we take the lives of plants and animals while maintaining a
proper respect for both ecosystems and the individuals who live in
them--including ourselves? In this book philosopher J. Claude Evans
challenges much of the accepted wisdom in environmental ethics and
argues that human participation in the natural cycles of life and
death can have positive moral value. With a guide for the
nonphilosophical reader, and set against the background of careful
and penetrating critiques of Albert Schweitzer's principle of
reverence for life and Paul Taylor's philosophy of respect for
nature, Evans uses hunting and catch-and-release fishing as test
cases in calling for a robust sense of membership in the natural
world. The result is an approachable, existential philosophy that
emphasizes the positive value of human involvement in natural
processes in which life and death, giving and receiving, self and
other are intertwined.
