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Winning and losing in environmental ethics

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1994

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Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
University of Georgia Press, publisher

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Abstract

Will humans lose when they do the right by way of care for nature--animals, endangered species, old-growth forests? Humans ought to forgo certain opportunities for the sake of nature, but when humans do so, we have been corrected from a misperception about where the good lies and how to value it. No one loses who ends with more wisdom gained and more value conserved in the world in which he or she resides. The losers become winners, a classical ethical paradox now rediscovered in environmental ethics.

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Includes bibliographical references (page 234).

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ecosystems
environmental ethics
values
self-transformation
nature
alturism
animals
plants
endangered species
conservation

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