Earth's Insights
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Author_J. Baird Callicott
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confucianism
ecological
ecology
environment
environmental ethics
environmentalism
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ethics
global
hinduism
international
islam
jainism
non western
non western world
north america
oral traditions
philosophy
polynesia
religion
religious studies
sacred books
sacred texts
south america
taoism
western philosophy
western world
zen buddhism
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- ISBN 9780520085602
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 29 Dec 1997
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The environmental crisis is global in scope, yet contemporary environmental ethics is centered predominantly in Western philosophy and religion. Earth's Insights widens the scope of environmental ethics to include the ecological teachings embedded in non-Western worldviews. J. Baird Callicott ranges broadly, exploring the sacred texts of Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Zen Buddhism, as well as the oral traditions of Polynesia, North and South America, and Australia. He also documents the attempts of various peoples to put their environmental ethics into practice. Finally, he wrestles with a question of vital importance to all people sharing the fate of this small planet: How can the world's many and diverse environmental philosophies be brought together in a complementary and consistent whole?
J. Baird Callicott is Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the Institute of Applied Sciences, University of North Texas, and author of In Defense of the Land Ethic: Essays in Environmental Philosophy (1989).
