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"Thoreau's Aesthetics and 'The Domain of the Superlative'"
In her essay, Dana Phillips presents a analysis of Thoreau’s aesthetics and “the domain of the superlative.”
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"Caring for Nature: What Science and Economics Can't Teach Us but Religion Can"
In this essay, Holmes Rolston analysis the role of religion in the environmental discourse.
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Stewart, Susan, "Response to Brady, Phillips and Rolston"
Responding to conference papers on aesthetics and environmentalism, this essay argues that sound environmental policy should begin with basic questions about the purpose and extent of human life.
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"Environmentalism, a Secular Faith"
This paper argues that a full understanding of environmentalism requires seeing it as a secular faith, movement concerned with ultimate questions of humans’ place and purpose in the world.
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"Finding Value in Nature"
This paper explores the idea that a proper valuing of natural environments is essential to (and not just a natural basis for) a broader human virtue that might be called ‘appreciation of the good’.
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Smith, Kimberly K., "Natural Subjects: Nature and Political Community"
Kimberly K. Smith argues that environmental political theory poses new challenges to our received political concepts and values.
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"Environmentalism: Spiritual, Ethical, Political"
The present paper is a commentary on very interesting papers by Thomas Dunlap, Thomas Hill, and Kimberly Smith, who take up the spiritual, ethical, and political perspectives respectively. Their accounts are described and evaluated.
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Toman, Michael, "Values in the Economics of Climate Change"
Michael Toman discusses values, costs, and benefits in the economics of climate change, and sketches ways in which technical economic analyses could be integrated with public dialogue.
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MacCracken, Michael C., "Climate Change Discussions in Washington: A Matter of Contending Perspectives"
Michael C. MacCracken analyses issues of contention within the climate change discussions in Washington, and stresses the need for strong leadership.
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“A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics and the Problem of Moral Corruption”
Stephen M. Gardiner discusses climate change, intergenerational ethics, and the convergence of problems which make climate change “a perfect moral storm.”