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  title info:
    title: This is environmental ethics
    sub title: an introduction
  name:
    name part: Lee, Wendy Lynne
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: "Philosophy and the life worth living While many disciplines have a vested interest in the environment, its inhabitants and ecosystems, its biotic diversity, and its future stability, it falls to philosophy perhaps more than to any other to offer organizing concepts for a viable-actionable, livable, realistic-environmental ethic. Ethics isn't about what merely is the case, but what should be. As an organizing feature of our ways of life, moral decision-making always has one foot in the context or conditions of our present actions and another pointed toward the future. A life that lacks self-reflection concerning our place in the many contexts or roles we occupy, the impacts of our decisions on our relationships with others, human and nonhuman, present and future, is not as likely, as Socrates might have put it, to be a life worth living. Even from the point of view of simple self-interest, such a life is bound to reap more pain than pleasure, more sorrow than joy. The reason, of course, is that life on planet Earth includes more than human beings and relationships. Our self-interested motives and the consequences that follow from our actions are rarely constrained to ourselves alone. Our lives include values that reach beyond the moral, for example, the aesthetic, the economic, the social, and the civic. As our recent confrontation with the Covid-19 pandemic surely reminds us, we cannot value our own health without valuing that of others, and as the climate crisis illustrates more clearly with each firenado, tsunami, or bomb cyclone, human actions have impact well beyond single communities, regions, and countries. Every time we sit down to eat, buy a car, read a book, go on vacation-every ordinary thing we do-is woven throughout with the often invisible labors of other people, with institutions like governments, and systems of economic exchange that inform virtually every action, and with nonhuman nature, living and non-living, plant life and sentient animal. Our bo…
  note: Wendy Lee.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Environmental ethics
  subject:
    topic: Environmental ethics
  classification: GE42
  classification: 179/.1
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    title info:
      title: This is philosophy
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    title info:
      title: This is environmental ethics
    name:
      name part: Lee, Wendy Lynne.
    origin info:
      publisher: Hoboken : Wiley Blackwell, 2022
    identifier: (DLC) 2021061539
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  identifier: 1119122716
  identifier: 9781119122708
  identifier: 2021061540
  identifier: 9781119122708 O'Reilly Media
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 211220
    record change date: 20260128185305.0
    record identifier: in00004671601
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng