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The Ethics of Nature and the Nature of Ethics by Matthew C. Eshleman; Scott M. James; Vladamir Jankovic; Isabel Kaeslin; Gary Keogh; Gary Keogh; Scott Midson; Parisa Moosavi; David Schultz; Robert Stern; Alison Stone; Maria Silvia Vaccarezza; Benjamin J. Wood is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This volume explores questions which emerge from considering the relationship between nature and ethics through philosophical, theological, ethical and environmental lenses. It will examine the nature (understood as essence or character) of ethics itself and whether nature (understood as natural world) has embedded in it a moral code, as well as examining how particular ethical/theological worldviews influence our treatment of nature. Is there an abstract, objective moral code in nature? If so, how do we gain access to this code of ethics? Is it only accessible through revelation, as in some religious traditions, or is this code of ethics more generally accessible to humanity? Indeed, does such an objective notion of ethics exist; could it be that ethics are a natural and subjective development? Is ethics a feature of nature, or have we invented it? There is, this volume might suggest, no consensus on these questions, as they at times divide and at times unite both the contributors to this volume and the bodies of scholarly work with which they engage. As time moves forward, investigations into ethics in the context of the relationship between humanity and nature have become more c

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Author

Matthew C. Eshleman; Scott M. James; Vladamir Jankovic; Isabel Kaeslin; Gary Keogh; Gary Keogh; Scott Midson; Parisa Moosavi; David Schultz; Robert Stern; Alison Stone; Maria Silvia Vaccarezza; Benjamin J. Wood

Publisher

Lexington Books/Fortress Academic

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781498544344

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Nature