Life's Intrinsic Value

Name: Life's Intrinsic Value
Brand: Columbia University Press
SKU: 9780231117876
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Science, Ethics, and Nature

Автор: Nicholas Agar

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Columbia University Press

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Are bacteriophage T4 and the long-nosed elephant fish valuable in their own right? Nicholas Agar def...

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Автор

Nicholas Agar

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2001

страници

192

EAN

9780231117876

ISBN

0231117876

Enbook ID

04557596

Издател

Columbia University Press

Теглоt

299

Размери

152 x 228 x 12

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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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