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Philosophy Gone Wild

  • ISBN-13: 9780879755560
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: PROMETHEUS
  • By Holmes Rolston
  • Price: AUD $52.99
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  • Local release date: 30/10/1989
  • Format: Paperback 269 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Bio-ethics [PSAD]
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Nature is perhaps the most ancient philosophical category, yet few others are of greater current relevance. Still, a quarter century back, not even the most astute observer would have predicted a wild turn in philosophy. There has been no more surprising philosophical development than the recent, serious reconsideration of the human relationship to the ecosystemic Earth. The questions come in many forms: Have we any duties to natural things at all, or merely duties to persons concerning natural things? What sort of human dominion over nature is proper? In what senses can or should humans follow nature? Have we duties to animals, perhaps at least to sentient animals? Have we duties to endangered species, or, again, only duties to persons concerning rare species?
Holmes Rolston III is University Distinguished Professor and professor of philosophy, Emeritus, at Colorado State University. He is the author of seven books and is the 2003 winner of the Templeton Prize in Religion and the 2005 winner of the Mendel Prize from Villanova University. He delivered the Gifford Lectures for 1997/98 at Edinburgh University.
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