Recognizing the Autonomy of Nature: Theory and PracticeThomas Heyd Columbia University Press, 09/11/2005 - 232 páginas How do the ways in which we think about and describe nature shape the use and protection of the environment? Do our seemingly well-intentioned efforts in environmental conservation reflect a respect for nature or our desire to control nature's wildness? The contributors to this collection address these and other questions as they explore the theoretical and practical implications of a crucial aspect of environmental philosophy and policy-the autonomy of nature. In focusing on the recognition and meaning of nature's autonomy and linking issues of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and policy, the essays provide a variety of new perspectives on human relationships to nature. |
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... reasons for attributing autonomy to nature and , on the other , what respect for nature's autonomy practically implies . In this introduction , I begin with a description of a particular place and its human and nonhuman inhabitants ...
... reasons . For example , once a society undergoes cognitive colonization through global mass media , its values change . Because they are highly institutionalized , reli- gious values change more slowly , but in today s world of diverse ...
... reason that attributions of color are problematic once we assume that those attributions depend on a ( certain kind ... reasons for excluding from our moral community cer- tain entities even if deemed autonomous , such as bacteria ...
... reason why human beings should revere it and as far as possible leave it be . " 13 Even William Cronon , and some of the writers assembled in his Uncom- mon Ground to make the case that nature is a cultural construct , concedes the ...
... reason enough to grant it respect af- ter all . In the human case , we may note that it would be questionable whether an individual identified as a thug should be worthy of moral respect ( at least while acting as a thug ) , especially ...
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Nature and Autonomy of Nature Are They Real? | 23 |
Toward a Progressive Naturalism | 25 |
Is Nature Autonomous? | 54 |
Autonomous Nature and Human Interests Are They Compatible? | 75 |
The Liberation of Humanity and Nature | 77 |
Respecting Natures Autonomy in Relationship with Humanity | 86 |
Autonomy and Agriculture | 99 |
Homo Administrator Managing a Needy Nature? | 121 |
Purple Loosestrife and the Bounding of Nature in North American Wetlands | 137 |
Restoration Autonomy and Domination | 154 |
Ecological Restoration and the Renewal of Wildness and Freedom | 170 |
Autonomy Restoration and the Law of Nature | 189 |
List of Contributors | 207 |
Index | 211 |
Management Restoration and the Autonomy of Nature A Paradox? | 119 |
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