Life's Intrinsic Value: Science, Ethics, and Nature - Softcover

Agar, Nicholas

 
9780231117876: Life's Intrinsic Value: Science, Ethics, and Nature
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0231117876 ISBN 13: 9780231117876
Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Are bacteriophage T4 and the long-nosed elephant fish valuable in their own right? Nicholas Agar defends an affirmative answer to this question by arguing that anything living is intrinsically valuable. This claim challenges received ethical wisdom according to which only human beings are valuable in themselves. The resulting biocentric or life-centered morality forms the platform for an ethic of the environment.

Agar builds a bridge between the biological sciences and what he calls "folk" morality to arrive at a workable environmental ethic and a new spectrum—a new hierarchy—of living organisms. The book overturns common-sense moral belief as well as centuries of philosophical speculation on the exclusive moral significance of humans. Spanning several fields, including philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science, and other areas of contemporary analytic philosophy, Agar analyzes and speaks to a wide array of historic and contemporary views, from Aristotle and Kant, to E. O. Wilson, Holmes Rolston II, and Baird Callicot. The result is a challenge to prevailing definitions of value and a call for a scientifically-informed appreciation of nature.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Nicholas Agar is lecturer in philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

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Verlag
Columbia University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0231117876
ISBN 13 
9780231117876
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
200
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Columbia University Press
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