Mans responsibility for nature by john passmore 19740430 john passmore on. John passmore, mans responsibility for nature philpapers. The terms world, cosmos, and universe, brief discussion. Ecological problems and western traditions john arthur passmore snippet view 1974. John passmore traced belief in human responsibility for nature to platos phaedrus, where it is said at 246b it is everywhere the responsibility of the animate to look after the inanimate. Passmore john mans responsibility for nature new york. John passmore presented yet another vision in his book mans responsibility to nature 1974, 9 one of the earliest major books on environmental ethics. John passmore mans responsibility for nature the present text has arisen from some thirteen years advances in our perception, appraisal and creative use of collaboration between the two authors. Ecological problems and westerntrnditioaa john passmore. Humancentered environmental values versus naturecentric. John passmore s book man s responsibility for nature remains the most authoritative statement of a main tendency in environmental ethics, constantly cited by both adherents and opponents of that tendency. John passmore mans responsibility for nature the present text has arisen from some thirteen years advances in.
He justly remarks that for a correct understanding of the west, one must take into account the two important inspirational. The challenge thirty years ago when the subject of environmental ethics became a research area of its own, and the journal of that name was founded, john passmore in his important book mans responsibility for nature set out one of the central challenges for the subject. Ecological problems and western tradition john arthur passmore on. Relations with nonhuman beings mouchang yu, yi lei encyclopedia of life support systems eolss humans and animals.
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In his book mans responsibility for nature 1974 passmore argued that there is urgent need to. Elder, eds, spirit and nature 148 beacon press, 1992. Alan sponberg, green buddhism and the hierarchy of compassion. Unesco eolss sample chapters environment and development vol. Publication date 1974 topics nature, environmental ethics, environmental protection publisher new york, scribner collection. One of the first extended philosophical essays addressing environmental ethics, john passmore s man s responsibility for nature has been criticised by defenders of deep ecology because of its anthropocentrism, often claimed to be constitutive of traditional western moral thought.
This paper is an attempt to bring together and to reformulate some of the basic philosophical themes in my mans responsibility for nature duckworth and charles scribner, 1974. Religion, ethics, and the environment religion ethics. Mans responsibility for nature by john passmore 19740430. Goethe and henry more were early outposts in the resistance to the humancenteredness of bacon and descartes. And we now have an amazing architecture of environmental law and. Influential works denying such intrinsic value are john passmore, mans responsibility for nature, 2d ed. John passmore, mans responsibility for nature 12 2d. And more narrowly still, i shall be devoting most of my attention to our attitudes towards that part of nature which it lies within mans power to modify and, in particular, towards what karl barth calls the strange life of beasts and plants which lies around us, a life we can by our. Harold wolozin search for other works by this author on. John passmore presented yet another vision in his book man s responsibility to nature 1974, 9 one of the earliest major books on environmental ethics.
And more narrowly still, i shall be devoting most of my attention to our attitudes towards that part of nature which it lies within mans power to modify and, in particular, towards what karl barth calls the strange life of beasts and plants which lies around us, a life we can by our actions destroy. On the contrary, all the other beings, too, have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of something else. Mans responsibility for nature by john passmore duckworth. Ecological problems and western traditions 327 charles scribners sons, 1974. June 1, 1974 australian philosophy professor passmore, author of the perfectability of man 1971, takes on those militant ecologists who have demanded a new western ethic away from the severe divisions into man and nature. Ecological problems and western tradition by john passmore. John passmore mans responsibility for nature larry rasmussen, environmental racism and environmental justice. Mans responsibility for nature by john passmore 197404. Its difficulties are emphasised by lovelocks gaia hypothesis, which implies that all global activities are selfregulating and difficult to influ.
Man s responsibility for natur e and, in religious versions of this. Relations with nonhuman beings mouchang yu, yi lei encyclopedia of life support systems eolss norton b. It records and analyze past thinking about mans relationship with the natural world. A summary passmore s book comprises of three parts, a part one titled the traditions has two chapters that are historical, titled man as a despot and stewardship and cooperation with nature. John passmore ac 9 september 1914 25 july 2004 was an australian philosopher. Temple university press, 1988, and keekok lee, the source and locus of intrinsic value, environmental ethics 18 1996. Mans responsibility for nature by john arthur passmore, 1980, duckworth edition, in english 2d ed. In his book man s responsibility for nature 1974 passmore argued that there is urgent need to change our attitude to the environment, and that humans cannot continue unconstrained exploitation of the biosphere. John passmore published the first booklength manuscript in environmental ethics, mans responsibility to nature, in 1974. A summary passmores book comprises of three parts, a part one titled the traditions has two chapters that are historical, titled man as a despot and stewardship and cooperation with nature. Ecological problems and western traditions by passmore, john and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The second chapter gives a brief summary of john passmore s book, man s responsibility for nature, that serves as a text in the process of this study. The scientist will be forced, in the unenthusiastic words of one of my scientific colleagues, to slosh about in the primordial ooze known as interdisciplinary studies.
Man s responsibility for nature by john passmore 19740430. John passmore, william coleman, and, first of all, the writer whose account they each criticize and modify and in some degree. Christian attitudes, john passmore, william coleman, and, first of all, the writer whose. Philosopher frank jackson notes that passmore shaped public debate and opened up philosophy and history of ideas to the wider world. The second chapter gives a brief summary of john passmores book, man s responsibility for nature, that serves as a text in the process of this study. It also tends to overestimate the impact of these biblical texts on cultures where. A year later another australian philosopher, john passmore, wrote mans responsibility for nature, in which he says that there was no need for an environmental ethics at all. Most of the debates among philosophers until the middle of the 1980s were focused on refuting passmore. T he title of this book mans responsibility for nature is often misquoted, as mans responsibility to, rather than for, nature. Of all published articles, the following were the most read within the past 12 months. This is an ambitious and broadranging reflective study of mans relationship with nature in terms of western christianity and contemporary problems. John passmore man s responsibility for nature the present text has arisen from some thirteen years advances in our perception, appraisal and creative use of collaboration between the two authors. Ecological problems and western traditions by john passmore. Mans responsibility for nature ecological problems and.
Christian attitudes to nature 371 for animals as the old testament had shown, and soon the biblical belief in the human dominion over nature became allied to the stoic belief that the irrational existed for the sake of the rational, and that people could do with nonhuman nature as they pleased without moral constraint. Mans responsibility for nature ecological problems and western traditions. Project muse mans responsibility for nature by john. Mans responsibility for nature by john passmore duckworth, 1974. He points out that it is only as a result of greek influence that christian theology was led to think of nature as nothing but a system of resources and that the west has never been wholly committed to the view that man has no responsibility whatsoever for the maintenance and preservation of the world around him. Duckworth, 1980, and luc ferry, the new ecological order chicago. Passmores position was an unabashed anthropocentrism what is needed are new moral habits, not new moral principles 1975 holmes rolston proposed a new starting point an ethics not merely about the environment.