Environmental Ethics

Preface 1. Humans Valuing the Natural Environment Values Carried by Nature * Value Ownership * Following Nature 2. Higher Animals: Duties to Sentient Life Natural Rights, Goods, Interests * Human Dominion over Animals * Domestic and Hunted Animals 3. Organisms: Duties to Organic Life Objective Value in Organisms * Objective Life versus Subjective Life * Human Interests and Organismic Values 4. Life in Jeopardy: Duties to Endangered Species Duties to Persons Concerning Species * Specific Forms of Life * Duties to Species * Individuals and Species * Species and Ecosystem * An Endangered Ethic? 5. Life in Community: Duties to Ecosystems Cooperation and Struggle * Centered and Loose Organization * Succession and Natural History * Individuals in Communities * Intrinsic, Instrumental, and Systemic Values * Subjective Experience and Evolutionary Ecosystems 6. The Concept of Natural Value: A Theory for Environmental Ethics Valuing Projective Nature * Valuing in Ecosystems * Valuing Aesthetic Nature 7. Environmental Policy: An Ethic of the Commons Collective Choice in an Environmental Ethic * A Value Analysis for Environmental Policy * Environmental Principles and Strategies 8. Environmental Business: An Ethic for Commerce Business and a Humanist Environmental Ethic * Business and a Naturalistic Environmental Ethic * Ethical Complexities in Business and Environmental Concerns * Business and Nature 9. Down to Earth: Persons in Natural History Humans Resident in Nature and Culture * Humans as Moral Overseers on Earth * Storied Residence on Earth Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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