<p>What is the ethical significance of the environment? How shall we dwell on, and with, the earth? And what, if anything, do we owe to future generations? “Time and the Land” pursues these questions through each of the four most prominent theories of ethics in the western philosophical tradition: Utilitarianism, Distributive Justice, Kantian Deontology, and Virtue Ethics.For each theory, Derek Parfit’s Non-Identity Problem serves as a test case. Parfit showed how some environmental policy decisions might harm no one in the far distant future, even if they produce situations all would agree are intrinsically repugnant. Myers seeks a theory of environmental ethics that not only responds to pressing moral problems in environmental policy, but also avoids the paradox of the Non-Identity Problem. Myers concludes that no single theory by itself can accomplish this task. A synthesis of ethics is required: but Virtue must lead the way. As Virtue is not a ‘utility-maximizing’ theory, it avoids the Non-Identity Problem. At the same time, its potential for responding to environmental ethics dilemmas is deep. Myers concludes that the aim for a worthwhile human life must include the aim to create and sustain the environmental conditions in which the worthwhile human life is possible and supported. A Virtuous person takes care of the future through aiming at ends which are, while achievable in the present, also temporally continuous and ongoing, even beyond the one's own lifetime. And the future which it is virtuous to aim for is the one which brings out one's best qualities in the course of striving for it.</p>

Time and the Land: Four Approaches to Environmental Ethics, Climate Change, and Future Generations

Politics & Social Sciences

Myers, Dr Brendan

Philosophy

Northwest Passage Books

<p>This is the second edition of the popular, low-cost, college-level textbook in logic and critical thinking. Covering topics like worldviews, formal and informal logic, science, reasonable doubt, propaganda, fake news, and the history of logic, "Clear and Present Thinking" aims to make philosophy in general, and critical thinking skills in particular, unmysterious, and widely available for the general public.Contents:Chapter 1: An Outline History of LogicChapter 2: Informal Logic: Questions, Problems, and World ViewsChapter 3: Informal Logic: Habits of ThinkingChapter 4: Basics of Formal LogicChapter 5: ArgumentsChapter 6: Science and Scientific ReasoningChapter 7: FallaciesChapter 8: Reasonable DoubtChapter 9: Moral ReasoningChapter 10: ActivitiesEpilogue: Why Can't We All Get Along?Glossary of Terms in Logic and Philosophy</p>

Clear and Present Thinking, Second Edition: A Handbook in Logic and Rationality

Elsby, Dr Charlene

Zieba, Dr Alex

Eight research papers produced between 2008 and 2016 for the Mount Haemus Award of the Order of Bards Ovates & Druids. Topics include Herbalism, Ethics, History, Archaeology, Musicology, Mythology, Transpersonal Psychology, Story-Telling and Druid Lore. Contributors: Dr Brendan Myers, Dr Andy Letcher, Dr. Thomas C. Daffern, Julian Barker, Kristoffer Hughes, Dr Karen Ralls, Dr Julia Farley, Ian Rees. Introduced by Philip Carr-Gomm.

The Mount Haemus Lectures Volume 2

Carr-Gomm, Philip

Hughes, Kristoffer

Rees, Ian

Barker, Julian

Daffern, Dr Thomas Clough

Farley, Dr Julia

Letcher, Dr Andy

Ralls, Dr Karen

The Oak Tree Press

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