With respect for nature : living as part of the natural world / J. Claude Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Joseph Claude.

Series:

SUNY series in environmental philosophy and ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal rights.

Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects.

Animal welfare.

Hunting.

Respect.

Physical Description:

xxi, 280 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : State University of New York Press, [2005]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part 1 R*E*S*P*E*C*T: Finding Out What It Means...

Chapter 1 The Challenge of Animal Rights and Animal Liberation Philosophy 3

Part 2 Albert Schweitzer: The Principle of Reverence for Life

Chapter 2 Albert Schweitzer's Philosophy of Reverence for Life 25

Chapter 3 Critical Examination of Schweitzer's Ethics of Reverence for Life 59

Part 3 Paul Taylor's Ethics of Respect for Nature

Chapter 4 The Biocentric Ethics of Paul Taylor 77

Chapter 5 Critical Analysis of Taylor's Philosophy of Respect for Nature 97

Part 4 Respect for Nature and Biocentric Anthropocentrism

Chapter 6 Biocentric Anthropocentrism 129

Chapter 7 Toward a Philosophy of the Hunt 159

Part 5 The Ethics of Catch and Release Fishing

Chapter 8 Fishing for Fish versus Fishing for Pleasure: A. A. Luce and the Ethics of Catch and Release Fishing 185

Chapter 9 The Practice of Catch and Release Fishing 195

Appendix Faith, Reason, and Animal Welfare 221.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-274) and index.

ISBN:

0791464431

079146444X

OCLC:

56616000