Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection: Suffering and Responsibility

by Lisa H. Sideris

Book Overview

In the last few decades, religious and secular thinkers have tackled the world's escalating environmental crisis by attempting to develop an ecological ethic that is both scientifically accurate and free of human-centered preconceptions. This groundbreaking study shows that many of these environmental ethicists continue to model their positions on romantic, pre-Darwinian concepts that disregard the predatory and cruelly competitive realities of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231126611
• ISBN13: 9780231126618
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"