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The Ethics of Nature

The Ethics of Nature

Hardcover

Series: New Dimensions to Religious Ethics

Environmental StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 063122937X
ISBN13: 9780631229377
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: Jan 26 2004
Pages: 272
Weight: 2.31
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.92 Depth: 9.92
Language: English
This accessible and timely book uses a Christian perspective to explore ethical debates about nature.

  • A detailed exploration of humanity's treatment of the natural world from a Christian perspective.
  • Covers a range of ethical debates, including current controversies about the environment, animal rights, biotechnology, consciousness, and cloning.
  • Sets the immediate issues in the context of underlying theological and philosophical assumptions.
  • Complex scientific issues are explained in clear student-friendly language.
  • The author develops her own distinctive ethical approach centred on the practice of wisdom.
  • Discusses key figures in the field, including Peter Singer, Aldo Leopold, Tom Regan, Andrew Linzey, James Lovelock, Anne Primavesi, Rosemary Radford Ruether, and Michael Northcott.
  • The author has held academic posts in both theology and plant science.

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