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... writer in England's New Scientist was convinced that Leopold's project for an ' extension of ethics ' could not be carried into effect , that Western ethics would have to be not extended but abandoned . He agrees with Leopold that the ...
... writer in England's New Scientist was convinced that Leopold's project for an ' extension of ethics ' could not be carried into effect , that Western ethics would have to be not extended but abandoned . He agrees with Leopold that the ...
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Ecological Problems and Western Traditions John Arthur Passmore. nature , ' so a writer in the Yale Review once argued , ' means a reversion to a state of brutal savagery . 14 This objection cannot be lightly dismissed . Thoreau tells us ...
Ecological Problems and Western Traditions John Arthur Passmore. nature , ' so a writer in the Yale Review once argued , ' means a reversion to a state of brutal savagery . 14 This objection cannot be lightly dismissed . Thoreau tells us ...
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... writer in the Melbourne Age - and newspaper editorials are not given to moral innova- tions - could assert that ' he who cuts down a tree unnecessarily is a criminal ' . One has only to look at some regions of England , or France , or ...
... writer in the Melbourne Age - and newspaper editorials are not given to moral innova- tions - could assert that ' he who cuts down a tree unnecessarily is a criminal ' . One has only to look at some regions of England , or France , or ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Man as Despot | 11 |
Stewardship and Cooperation with | 28 |
Copyright | |
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