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The Human Relationship to Nature - The Limit of Reason, the Basis of Value, and the Crisis of Environmental Ethics (Hardcover)
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The Human Relationship to Nature - The Limit of Reason, the Basis of Value, and the Crisis of Environmental Ethics (Hardcover)
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Growing alarm over the harm done by humans to the natural world,
and even to the viability of our own industrial civilization,
compels us to ask the deeper moral question: What should be the
human relationship to nature? Matthew R. Foster starts by assessing
three contrasting patterns of moral reasoning: the Progress Ethic
that created the world we live in; the biblically-inspired
Stewardship Ethic; and the Connection Ethic based on scientific
understanding of the interdependence of all natural entities.
Critical analysis reveals that none of these ethics is able to
sustain the values it advocates due to two unsupportable
presumptions-that the norms of human morality are commensurate with
the natural world, and that the value of an entity is an intrinsic
property. Foster argues that in order for a future environmental
ethic to be both logically coherent and environmentally
constructive, it must start from unconventional notions. First,
because nature will never be commensurate with human moral
reasoning, non-rational resources must be employed despite the
risks involved. Second, value resides in the relationship of one
entity to another, and does not belong intrinsically to either-in
short, value is foremost a verb, rather than a noun. Foster
proposes a new paradigm attentive to the realm of value relations
among all natural entities, one which offers mediating
opportunities between nature and morality. In this new ethic there
are no "shoulds." Rather, moral responsibilities to the natural
entities around us are elective, placing us in an unfamiliar yet
potentially liberating network of relationships. This book will be
of interest to scholars-both instructors and students-of
environmental ethics, philosophy, religion, and intellectual
history, and all who are concerned about the environmental
challenges of our time.
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