Earth Ethics: Environmental Ethics, Animal Rights and Practical Applications [Paperback]

James P. Sterba (Editor)

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This text contains an ample array of up-to-date, well-related readings on animal rights/animal liberation and environmental ethics as well as readings on current topics such as ecological feminism.

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co; 1 edition (August 5, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0024171026
• ISBN-13: 978-0024171023
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,695,081 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars An broad perspective on ecological ethics, July 10, 2000

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John J. Morelli, Ph.D. (Crompond, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Earth Ethics: Environmental Ethics, Animal Rights and Practical Applications (Paperback)

Sterba has compiled a comprehensive list of readings on topics relating to ecological ethics. That is, issues important to conciencious citizens of earth and how they should act to best preserve their global environment and treat their fellow inhabitants. Many of the separate readings put into perspective the moral and ethical teachings of past and present, and apply them to an increasingly earth-responsible perspective. Furthoremore, an obvious effort by the authors to draw similarities amoung themselves into a cohesive statement of ecological responsibility succeeds without compromising differences in each perspective. My only critisism is the inconsistency in citation style that leads to insufficient detailing of sources for certain facts used to support important positions. This is especially true of the two political writers. Citing the sources for data quoted would lend heavier credence to the positions they expound.