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Ecology and Justice-Citizenship in Biotic Communities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Ecology and Justice-Citizenship in Biotic Communities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Studies in Global Justice, 19
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This is the first book to outline a basic philosophy of ecology
using the standard categories of academic philosophy: metaphysics,
axiology, epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, and political
philosophy. The problems of global justice invariably involve
ecological factors. Yet the science of ecology is itself imbued
with philosophical questions. Therefore, studies in ecological
justice, the sub-discipline of global justice that relates to the
interaction of human and natural systems, should be preceded by the
study of the philosophy of ecology. This book enables the reader to
access a philosophy of ecology and shows how this philosophy is
inherently normative and provides tools for securing ecological
justice. The moral philosophy of ecology directly addresses the
root cause of ecological and environmental injustice: the violation
of fundamental human rights caused by the inequitable distribution
of the benefits (economies) and costs (diseconomies) of
industrialism. Philosophy of ecology thus has implications for
human rights, pollution, poverty, unequal access to resources,
sustainability, consumerism, land use, biodiversity,
industrialization, energy policy, and other issues of social and
global justice. This book offers an historical and
interdisciplinary exegesis. The analysis is situated in the context
of the Western intellectual tradition, and includes great thinkers
in the history of ecological thinking in the West from the natural
sciences, social sciences and humanities. Keller asks the big
questions and surveys answers with remarkable detail. Here is an
insightful analysis of contemporary, classical, and ancient
thought, alike in the ecological sciences, the humanities, and
economics, the roots and fruits of our concepts of nature and of
being in the world. Keller is unexcelled in bridging the is/ought
gap, bridging nature and culture, and in celebrating the richness
of life, its pattern, process, and creativity on our wonderland
Earth. Holmes Rolston, III University Distinguished Professor,
Colorado State University Author of A New Environmental Ethics: The
Next Millennium for Life on Earth (2012) Mentored by renowned
ecologist Frank Golley and renowned philosopher Frederick Ferre,
David Keller is well prepared to provide a deep history and a
sweeping synthesis of the "idea of ecology"-including the
metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical aspects of that idea, as
well as the scientific. J. Baird Callicott University Distinguished
Research Professor, University of North Texas Author of Thinking
Like a Planet: The Land Ethic and the Earth Ethic (2013)
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