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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorOxford University Press, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-18T13:05:21Z
dc.date.available2021-10-18T13:05:21Z
dc.date.issued1995
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.
dc.description.abstractEnvironmental bioethics, or environmental ethics, is the theory and practice concerning values in and duties to, or concerning, the natural world. An anthropocentric ethic holds that humans are the focus of ethics and nature is instrumental to their concerns. A naturalistic ethic is more radical, and holds that animals, plants, ecosystems, and even Earth as a whole ought to be the direct objects of moral concern, at times at least. If so, environmental bioethics differs from bioethics more generally, which has previously been largely medical, with human health and welfare its concern. A comprehensive environmental bioethics locates humans in both human and biotic communities, with values and duties at multiple levels and scales. These ethics may join, however, as all humans see themselves as Earthlings, with their home planet as a responsibility.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, 1932-, Environmental Bioethics, in Goudie, Andrew S., Editor in Chief, Encyclopedia of Global Change, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), vol. 1, pp. 399-401.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/233961
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles
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dc.subjectbioethics
dc.subjectenvironment
dc.subjectecosystems
dc.subjectvalues in nature
dc.subjectanthropocentrism
dc.subjectinstrumental value
dc.subjectintrinsic value
dc.subjecthumans
dc.subjectEarthlings communities
dc.titleEnvironmental bioethics
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