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Earth ethics: a challenge to liberal education
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1996) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; State University of New York Press, publisher
The home planet is in crisis. The two great marvels of our planet are life and mind, both among the rarest things in the universe, unknown elsewhere. Diverse combinations of nature and culture worked well enough over millennia, but no more. Our modern cultures threaten the stability, beauty, and integrity of Earth, and thereby of the cultures superposed on Earth. Behind the vision of one world is the shadow of none. We are searching for an ethics adequate to respect life on this home planet. But university education, in both the sciences and the humanities, has tended to find nature value free and to head students away from, rather than toward, an intense consciousness of land.
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Naturalizing Callicott
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2002) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; State University of New York Press, publisher
In environmental philosophy, J. Baird Callicott is a doubtful guide; indeed he has gotten himself lost. He cannot find values in nature, not intrinsically. Indeed, at times he cannot find nature at all, only a nature commingled with culture. So, paradoxically, we need to get Callicott, though he thinks of himself as a naturalist, really naturalized. I cannot follow him in his arguments (1) about nature and culture, (2) about intrinsic natural value, and (3) about wilderness. He so resolutely opposes dichotomizing humans and nature that he cannot find any integrity for nature on its own. He remains, for a would-be naturalist, surprisingly humanistic--with people projecting their values onto nature, with people managing their landscapes. This is half the truth. But it is not the whole truth.