Preservation Versus the People?: Nature, Humanity, and Political Philosophy
Mathew Humphrey
Abstract
Environmental political philosophy has generally been framed around the differing axiologies of ecocentrism (nature‐centred) and anthropocentric (human‐centred) forms of ethics. This book seeks to challenge the political relevance of this philosophical dispute with respect to the problem of nature preservation as public policy. A detailed analysis of the philosophical underpinnings of both ecocentric and ‘ecological humanist’ positions shows that the ‘embedded humanism’ within ecocentric arguments offers an opportunity to move beyond the ecocentric‐anthropocentric divide. Furthermore, a princi ... More
Keywords: anthropocentrism, ecocentrism, ecological humanism, environment, ethics, irreplaceability, natural goods, nature, political philosophy, public policy
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2002 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199242672 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 | DOI:10.1093/0199242674.001.0001 |
