442 Pages
by
Routledge
442 Pages
by
Routledge
442 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1989 Social Philosophy and Ecological Scarcity presents a systematic study of the implications of ecological scarcity for social philosophy. The book argues for a new social philosophy based on a conception of the ‘good society’ and the ‘good life’ which makes fewer, rather than more demands on scarce ecological resources. The book shows that the two major competing... Read more
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. A Rational Basis for a Naturalistic Ethic and Social Philosophy
2. The Principles of Ecology and the Laws of Thermodynamics
3. Ecological Scarcity
4. Human Agency and its External Relations
5. Rates of Reproduction and Consumption
6. Economics at Odds with Ecological Scarcity
7. Civilisation, its Contents and its Discontents
8. Work and the Two Socialisms
9. Redistribution, Equality as the Distributive Value
10. Human Capacities and Needs
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Keekok Lee
