Wrongness, Wisdom, and Wilderness: Toward a Libertarian Theory of Ethics and the EnvironmentSUNY Press, 1.01.1997 г. - 218 страници This surprising work may well change our ideas about what libertarianism is and what it can be. Tal Scriven elaborates and defends a libertarian theory of social ethics that can support welfare, reverse discrimination, and environmental preservationism; biocentrism, Nietzschean perspectivism, and laws requiring good Samaritanism; and utilitarianism, the social contract theory, and legal moralism--all at the same time. In the process, he offers strikingly original analyses of figures as varied as Plato, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Mill, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Dewey. The first part of the book articulates a libertarian approach to the ethics of social policy, arguing that the principle of utility should be understood, in judging social policy, through application of the principle of harm, or wrongness. Part II draws on Plato, Nietzsche, and Mill to give an account of ideas relevant to moral reflection on individual lives, analyzing various theories of prudential wisdom that apply to the private realm of purely personal action. Part III deals with our relationship, as individuals and societies, to nature. Scriven argues that nothing logically prevents a well-constructed libertarianism from supporting environmental-ethics positions at least as radical as biocentrism, although he finds deep problems with going as far as ecocentrism and its postmodern variants. |
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... Moral Justification 87 Chapter 9 Egoism , Altruism , and Virtue 95 Chapter 10 Individualism 107 Chapter 11 Sublimation 113 Chapter 12 Friendship , Love , Marriage , and Gender 129 PART 3 WILDERNESS Chapter 13 Anthropocentrism and ...
... atheoretical . Nevertheless , American moral and political philosophy has been , and continues to be , dominated by debates within the tradition of Enlighten- ment liberalism . A list of the major players in 1 INTRODUCTION.
... moral theory specifically , is utterly incapable of reckoning with contemporary ecological realities . A large part of the difficulty with contemporary moral theory is to be found in the fact that a major assumption that runs all ...
... moral sense of the liberal West is that one's actions should be liable to social control only upon the demon ... moral concern to the individual level . Social morality and individual wisdom are just about different things ; social ...
... moral concerns . However , I will argue that there is something fundamentally confusing about ecocentrism , namely , that its expositors are not being altogether clear about whether their the- ory is supposed to be a theory about ...
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Self and State A Historical Perspective | 7 |
Self and State A Theoretical Perspective | 15 |
Utility and Social Ethics | 21 |
Utility and Individual Ethics | 31 |
Utility Harm and Liberty | 37 |
Refinements | 47 |
Applications | 63 |
Political Consent Individual Choice and Moral Justification | 87 |
Friendship Love Marriage and Gender | 129 |
Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism | 147 |
Modernist Biocentrism and Ecocentrism | 151 |
Postmodern Ecocentrism and Ecofeminism | 169 |
Wrongness and Wilderness | 177 |
Wisdom and Wilderness | 183 |
NOTES | 191 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 209 |
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