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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... utilitarianism and Rawls's theory of jus- tice ) appear to say little of real value about how individuals ought to analyze and conduct their day - to - day lives . As a consequence , there has been considerable interest lately in ...
... utilitarian tra- dition and , particularly , out of Mill's thought . The plight of utilitarianism in this century gives us one of the best examples of how the confusion of individual with social ethics has led moral philosophy astray ...
... utilitarianism . " They were , as I will argue later , mainly concerned with questions of legislation and other forms of social con- trol . Nevertheless , of the routine criticisms against utilitarianism , the most serious are those ...
... utilitarianism to envi- ronmental issues . Given the antithesis between individual wisdom and social ethics I will try to establish in the first two parts of the book , it might seem natural that I would favor some sort of " ecocentric ...
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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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