2nd Edition

A New Environmental Ethics The Next Millennium for Life on Earth

By Holmes Rolston III Copyright 2020
282 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This Second Edition of A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth offers clear, powerful, and often moving thoughts from Holmes Rolston III, one of the first and most respected philosophers to write on the environment and often called the "father of environmental ethics." Rolston surveys the full spectrum of approaches in the field of environmental ethics and offers... Read more

1. The Environmental Turn

2. Humans: People on their Landscapes

3. Animals: Beasts in Flesh and Blood

4. Organisms: Respect for Life

5. Species and Biodiversity: Lifelines in Jeopardy

6. Ecosystems: The Land Ethic

7. Earth: Ethics on the Home Planet

Biography

Holmes Rolston III is University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University.  He has written seven books. He gave the Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, 1997–1998, and won the Templeton Prize in Religion in 2003. Rolston has spoken as a distinguished lecturer on all seven continents.

Praise for the First Edition:

"This is an introduction to environmental ethics that only Holmes Rolston could write – at once gut-wrenchingly direct and poetically-inspired, it will attract new generations to the field that he did so much to create."
Dale Jamieson, New York University

"A succinct overview of the field from its most important thinker, this book is the indispensable introduction to environmental ethics."
Willis Jenkins, Yale University

"Highly recommended."
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