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1. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 6 > Issue: 1

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3. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 6 > Issue: 1
Allen Carlson

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Positive aesthetics holds that the natural environment, insofar as it is unaffected by man, has only positive aesthetic qualities and value-that virgin nature is essentially beautiful. In spite of the initial implausibility of this position, it is nonetheless suggested by many individuals who have given serious thought to the natural environment and to environmental philosophy. Certain attempts to defend theposition involve claiming either that it is not implausible because our appreciation of nature is not genuinely aesthetic, or that the position is justified in virtue of man’s limited control and understanding of the natural world or in virtue of the natural world’s divine design and origin. Such attempts are inadequate; they neither justify the position nor explain its acceptance. In order to account for positive aesthetics,we must note the intimate connection between nature appreciation and the development of natural science. An understanding of the role of scientific knowledge in the aesthetic appreciation of nature not only sheds light on the acceptance of the positive aesthetics position, but also suggests a means by which to justify it.
4. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 6 > Issue: 1
Andrew Brennan

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Human beings are, as far as we know, the only animals to have moral concerns and to adopt moralities, but it would be a mistake to be misled by this fact into thinking that humans are also the only proper objects of moral consideration. I argue that we ought to allow even nonliving things a significant moral status, thus denying the condusion of much contemporary moral thinking. First, I consider the possibilityof giving moral consideration to nonliving things. Second, I put forward grounds which justify this extension of morality beyond its conventional boundarles. Third, I argue that natural objects have a status different from a special dass of artifacts -works of art. Fourth, I discuss the notion of interest, and fifth I look brietly at the status of natural systems and at ways we might link the proposed extension of moral considerability with the rest of our moral thinking.

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5. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 6 > Issue: 1
Paul B. Thompson

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Many arguments for and against nuclear power can be analyzed according to a matrix of logically competing claims on the need and safety of nuclear power. Logical analysis of the arguments reveals their philosophical basis and contributes to an understanding of their explanatory appeal. The evidential value of claims made in the arguments of both supporters and opponents depends upon familiar issues in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of science.

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7. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 6 > Issue: 1
Richard Conviser

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The current mode of agricultural organization produces both political and ecological problems. I explore several deeply-rooted cultural origins of that mode of organization, particularly the movements toward scientism and capitalism; each of these is shown to emphasize abstraction from context. A contrasting set of values, emphasizing holism and localism, is then examined. Several forms of agricultureconsistent with these contrasting values, and exempt from previously discussed problems, are described.

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9. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 6 > Issue: 1
Conrad Bonifazi

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10. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 6 > Issue: 1
Michael Ruse

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11. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 6 > Issue: 1
Peter G. Stillman

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