Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature
This book discusses Marx’s ecological principles and materialistic views that can be traced back to mid-nineteenth-century social and scientific thought.
This book discusses Marx’s ecological principles and materialistic views that can be traced back to mid-nineteenth-century social and scientific thought.
Should environmental philosophers—or practical conservationists—focus their attentions on particular living creatures, or on the community of which they, and we, are part?
Humans must define and carry out a way of life so that each generation can fulfill and forward their obligation to their children while enjoying a favourable way of life themselves.
William Aiken examines the tradition of human rights and their role in our currently increasing environmental awareness.
The article explores the possibilities of a new ethic that incorporates the phenomenon of environmental crisis and aims at changing people’s outlooks and behaviour.
Alastair Macintosh uses Plato and Bacon as yardsticks to consider the British government’s White Paper on science together with government research council reports as a basis for critiquing current science policy and its intensifying orientation, British and worldwide, towards industrial and military development.
Robert Elliot discusses anthropocentric ethics, concluding with a subjectivist account of intrinsic value.
David Schmidtz argues that “the philosophies of both conservation and preservationism can fail by their own lights, since trying to put their respective principles of conservationism or preservationism into institutional practice can have results that are the opposite of what the respective philosophies tell us we ought to be trying to achieve.”
Hub Zwart reflects on the possibility of a moral relationship with animals.
Sarah Franklin introduces the term ‘breedwealth’ to examine Dolly as a unique form of property in order to make some of these connections more visible.