Ethics

For good introductory chapters go to: Stewart, N  Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy (Polity, 2009) Ch.7 Tannsjo, T Understanding Ethics…

This useful list of issues is taken from http://gadfly.igc.org/e-ethics/Intro-ee.htm.there is also a link to a postdoctoral dissertation examining John Rawls’ theory…

Environmental Ethics This interactive handout is written by Dr Julian Dobson of Tonbridge School, Kent. The issues Environmental Ethics has been…

Copenhagen Agreement National leaders and sleep-deprived negotiators thrashed out a text late last night that could determine the balance of power…

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June 2009 Q4 "Relativist ethics are the best approach to the environment". Discuss (35) Jan 2010 G582 Q2 "Utilitarianism is not…

To what extent are religious teachings on the environment and the Gaia hypothesis compatible? [35] OCR June 2013 Q1 This was…

Traditional Ethical Theories and Contemporary Environmental Ethics Source: Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy Although environmental ethicists often try to distance themselves from…

Lynn White’s essay was first published in 1967. In it she blames a certain branch of Christian Ethics for the unsustainable…

In his essay, The Tragedy of the Commons, Garrett Hardin (1968) looked at what happens when humans do not limit their…

If a being suffers, there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what…

The Roman Catholic Church has generally taken an anthropocentric (man-centred) view of environmental issues – arguing it is important as an…

Here is Tim lenton’s conclusion to his article in Nature which James Lovelock describes as a “seminal article” (The revenge of…

Source: http://www.aldoleopold.org/about/LandEthic.pdf For an excellent article reviewing Aldo Leopold’s contribution to environmental ethics go to: http://www.eoearth.org/article/Aldo_Leopold’s_Land_Ethic “All ethics so far evolved…

Our understanding of Earth, and our place in it, underlies and explains much of what we do in everyday life. Practical…

http://ocw.capilanou.ca/philosophy/phil-208-environmental-ethics/non-anthropocentric.htm Sterba attempts a kind of reconciliation between anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric environmental ethics. His main point is that the most plausible…

The evolutionary origin of ethics  John Baird Callicott (in Jamieson ed A Companion to Environmental Philosophy pages 206-7) source: http://hettingern.people.cofc.edu/Environmental_Philosophy_Sp_09/Callicott_The_Land_Ethic.pdf The…

Tragedy of Freedom in a Commons Garrett Hardin © Science 1968 Vol 13 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/162/3859/1243.full The rebuttal to the invisible hand in population…

For more on Gaia go to http://www.gaiatheory.org Question: Do you consider the Earth a living organism?________________________________________A If it’s true then it…

Here’s a hyperlink to an excellent set of articles on the environmental issue. http://www.religioustolerance.org/environment.htm