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anthropocentrism
Asymmetry Thesis
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Autonomy Theses
Axiological Commitments
Bioregional Vision
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Comprehensive Doctrine
Comprehensive Liberalism
deep ecology theory
Eco-political Theory
ecofeminist perspectives
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environmental ethics
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Gloomy Story
Good Life
Green Liberalism
liberalism and environmental values
Nature's Otherness
Nature’s Otherness
Non-human Nature
Nonhuman Nature
Otherness View
Perfectionist Liberalism
Political Liberal Conception
political philosophy
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Product details
- ISBN 9781902683836
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Dec 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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It is often claimed by environmental philosophers and green political theorists that liberalism, the dominant tradition of western political philosophy, is too focused on the interests of human individuals to give due weight to the environment for its own sake. In "How to be a Green Liberal", Simon Hailwood challenges this view and argues that liberalism can embrace a genuinely 'green', non-instrumental view of nature. The book's central claim is that nature's 'otherness', its being constituted of independent entities and processes that do not reflect our purposes, is a basis for value and can be incorporated within liberal political philosophy as a fundamental commitment alongside human freedom and equality. Hailwood argues that the conceptual resources already exist within mainstream liberalism for a thoroughly non-instrumental perspective. Adopting a rigorous philosophical approach Hailwood tackles a wide range of themes across environmental ethics, including holistic theories, deep ecology, eco-feminism and eco-anarchism, as well as issues in value theory and political philosophy more generally. In making the case for liberalism's green credentials "How to be a Green Liberal" is a formidable challenge to recent green political theory and will be required reading not only for students of political philosophy but for all those interested in the natural world and man's relationship to it.
Simon Hailwood is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
