Time and the Land: Four Approaches to Environmental Ethics, Climate Change, and Future Generations

by Brendan Myers

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What is the ethical significance of the environment? How shall we dwell on, and with, the earth? And what, if anything, do we owe to future generations? "Time and the Land" pursues these questions through each of the four most prominent theories of ethics in the western philosophical tradition: Utilitarianism, Distributive Justice, Kantian Deontology, and Virtue Ethics.For each theory, Derek Parfit's Non-Identity Problem serves as a test case. Parfit...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0992005922

ISBN13:9780992005924

Release Date:September 2013

Publisher:Northwest Passage Books

Length:420 Pages

Weight:1.23 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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