The Wild and the Wicked On Nature and Human Nature / Benjamin Hale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hale, Benjamin, author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2016]

Summary:

Many ethicists and political advocates believe that the argument for environmentalism is simple: demonstrate that nature is valuable and obligations to protect the environment will follow. This approach to environmentalism often appears as a kind of consequentialism. This work, though sympathetic with environmentalism, argues against this consequentialist approach. It takes as its initiating presupposition the opposite stance: that nature can at times be quite disvaluable. In assuming this stance, it aims to carve a sharp distinction between events and actions, fundamentally splitting open the idea that actions are taken for reasons.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

NATURE'S VALUE, THE CHOICES WE MAKE, AND THE LIVES WE LIVE

WHAT GREEN MEANS

ABOUT THE BOOK

What to Expect

Act I

1 Return to the Paleocene

GONE

CONNECTING THE DOTS

THE FORECAST: UNPLEASANT, WITH A CHANCE OF TERRIBLE

DISASTER OF OUR OWN MAKING

PRELIMINARY EXPECTORATIONS: FORGET WHAT YOU KNOW

CATASTROPHE REDUX

THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD FUTURE ARGUMENT

2 The Precious Vase

LOCKDOWN

CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER

TREE HUGGER 101: THE BIRDS, THE BEES, AND THE LOVELY TREES

CANARIES, COAL MINES, AND THE WEB OF RELATIONS

BEES AND THE BOTTOM LINE

GREEN IS NO GOOD

3 Rustling in the Bushes

HORROR

TERRA INCOGNITA

RAINBOW OF FLAVORS

ELEVATORS AND AIR CONDITIONERS

THE CRUELEST MISTRESS

MOMMY DEAREST

4 The Wild and the Wicked

CRASH BOOM

FREEZE-FRAME: STATES OF THE WORLD

THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT SHOULD: DECISION JUNCTURES

RUBBER, MEET ROAD: ACTIONS AND EVENTS

Act II

5 Control Freak

BOUND AND DETERMINED

THE DRIVER AND THE DRIVEN

OUTSIDE FORCES

THE MIDNIGHT CUPCAKE THIEF: WILLING AND WANTING

YOU GOT YOUR NATURE IN MY PEANUT BUTTER

CARNIVORE, OMNIVORE, HERBIVORE, LOCAVORE: PRINCIPLES AND HABITS

6 Dr. Feelgood and Mr. Fix-It Go to the Picture Show

THE BIGGEST FATTEST AWESOMEST AIR CONDITIONER MONEY CAN BUY

THE ELIXIR OF UTOPIA

HENNY PENNY AND THE UGLY DUCKLING

WHY HONEY, IT'S PERFECT!

FLU SHOT ROULETTE

EXPLAIN YOURSELF

7 The Voter's Conundrum

SUCKER'S BALLOT: WHY WE VOTE

WHERE THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A WHY

EXPLIFICATION

WORD-SALAD SANDWICH

OF WHISKEY AND DARTBOARDS

THE RIGHT AS THE JUSTIFIED

Act III

8 The Axes of Evildoers

FIRE AT TWO ELK

WHO'S ON FIRST? WHAT'S ON THIRD?

THE ROOTS OF ALL EVIL

EPISTEMIC CLOSURE.

BENEFIT-DOUBT ANALYSIS

OVER THE RIVER: REORDERING OUR REASONS

9 The Green's Gambit

DON'T FEED THE BEARS

HE WHO HAS THE GOLD MAKES THE RULES

ICE BATH

THE RULES OF THE ROAD

THE SENSITIVITY OF CAR ALARMS

TRADING PLACES

PHILOSOPHY, NOW MORE THAN EVER: SECURING OUR ENDS

10 The Good Green Life

THE PARABLE OF WICKED AND WILD

EARTH

FOURIER'S BLANKET

PUBLIC HEALTH MENACE

HAVING A REASON

THE VIRIDIAN COMMONWEALTH

Postscript: The Right Thing for the Right Reason

Notes

CHAPTER 1: RETURN TO THE PALEOCENE

CHAPTER 2: THE PRECIOUS VASE

CHAPTER 3: RUSTLING IN THE BUSHES

CHAPTER 4: THE WILD AND THE WICKED

CHAPTER 5: CONTROL FREAK

CHAPTER 6: DR. FEELGOOD AND MR. FIX-IT GO TO THE PICTURE SHOW

CHAPTER 7: THE VOTER'S CONUNDRUM

CHAPTER 8: THE AXES OF EVILDOERS

CHAPTER 9: THE GREEN'S GAMBIT

CHAPTER 10: THE GOOD GREEN LIFE

INDEX.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-262-33650-2

0-262-33649-9

OCLC:

966444991