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Wilderness, Morality, and Value (Hardcover)
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Wilderness, Morality, and Value (Hardcover)
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What if wilderness is bad for wildlife? This question motivates the
philosophical investigation in Wilderness, Morality, and Value.
Environmentalists aim to protect wilderness, and for good reasons,
but wilderness entails unremittent, incalculable suffering for its
non-human habitants. Given that it will become increasingly
possible to augment nature in ways that ameliorates some of this
suffering, the morality of wilderness preservation is itself in
question. Joshua S. Duclos argues that the technological and
ethical reality of the Anthropocene warrants a fundamental
reassessment of the value of wilderness. After exposing the moral
ambiguity of wilderness preservation, he explores the value of
wilderness itself by engaging with anthropocentricism and
nonanthropocentrism; sentientism, biocentrism, and ecocentrism; and
instrumental value and intrinsic value. Duclos argues that the
value of wilderness is a narrow form of anthropocentric intrinsic
value, one with a religio-spiritual dimension. By integrating
scholarship from bioethics on the norms of engineering human nature
with debates in environmental ethics concerning the prospect of
engineering non-human nature, Wilderness, Morality, and Value sets
the stage for wilderness ethics-or wilderness faith-in the
Anthropocene.
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