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Author Scriven, Tal

Title Wrongness, wisdom, and wilderness : toward a libertarian theory of ethics and the environment / Tal Scriven
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 218 pages)
Series SUNY series in social and political thought
SUNY series in social and political thought.
Contents pt. 1. Wrongness: Self and state: a historical perspective. Self and state: a theoretical perspective. Utility and social ethics. Utility and individual ethics. Utility, harm, and liberty. Refinements. Applications -- pt. 2. Wisdom: Political consent, individual choice, and moral justification. Egoism, altruism, and virtue. Individualism. Sublimation. Friendship, love, marriage, and gender -- pt. 3. Wilderness: Anthropocentrism and ecocentrism. Modernist biocentrism and ecocentrism. Postmodern ecocentrism and ecofeminism. Wrongness and wilderness. Wisdom and wilderness
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-213) and index
Notes English
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Subject Environmental ethics.
Utilitarianism.
Libertarianism.
Human ecology.
utilitarianism.
human ecology.
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Environmental ethics
Human ecology
Libertarianism
Utilitarianism
Milieuethiek.
Libertijnen.
Utilitarisme.
Environmental Sciences.
Earth & Environmental Sciences.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 96026396
ISBN 0585056390
9780585056395