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Environmental Justice in African Philosophy

Author : Munamato Chemhuru
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000567753
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Justice in African Philosophy written by Munamato Chemhuru and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on environmental justice in African philosophy, highlighting important new perspectives which will be of significance to researchers with an interest in environmental ethics both within Africa and beyond. Drawing on African social and ethical conceptions of existence, the book makes suggestions for how to derive environmental justice from African philosophies such as communitarian ethics, relational ethics, unhu/ubuntu ethics, ecofeminist ethics and intergenerational ethics. Specifically, the book emphasises the ways in which African philosophies of existence seek to involve everyone in environmental policy and planning and to equitably distribute both environmental benefits (such as natural resources) and environmental burdens (such as pollution and the location of mining, industrial or dumping sites). This extends to fair distribution between global South and global North, rich and poor, urban and rural populations, men and women and adults and children. These principles of humaneness, relationships, equality, interconnectedness and teleologically oriented existence among all beings are important not only to African environmental justice but also to the environmental justice movement globally. The book will interest researchers and students working in the fields of environmental ethics, African philosophy and political philosophy in general.

African Philosophy and Environmental Conservation

Author : Jonathan O. Chimakonam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351583263
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book African Philosophy and Environmental Conservation written by Jonathan O. Chimakonam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Philosophy and Environmental Conservation is about the unconcern for, and marginalisation of, the environment in African philosophy. The issue of the environment is still very much neglected by governments, corporate bodies, academics and specifically, philosophers in the sub-Saharan Africa. The entrenched traditional world-views which give a place of privilege to one thing over the other, as for example men over women, is the same attitude that privileges humans over the environment. This culturally embedded orientation makes it difficult for stake holders in Africa to identify and confront the modern day challenges posed by the neglect of the environment. In a continent where deep-rooted cultural and religious practices, as well as widespread ignorance, determine human conduct towards the environment, it becomes difficult to curtail much less overcome the threats to our environment. It shows that to a large extent, the African cultural privileging of men over women and of humans over the environment somewhat exacerbates and makes the environmental crisis on the continent intractable. For example, it raises the challenging puzzle as to why women in Africa are the ones to plant the trees and men are the ones to fell them. Contributors address these salient issues from both theoretical and practical perspectives, demonstrating what African philosophy could do to ameliorate the marginalisation which the theme of environment suffers on the continent. Philosophy is supposed to teach us how to lead the good life in all its forms; why is it failing in this duty in Africa specifically where the issue of environment is concerned? This book which trail-blazes the field of African Philosophy and Environmental Ethics will be of great interest to students and scholars of Philosophy, African philosophy, Environmental Ethics and Gender Studies.

African Ethics

Author : Munyaradzi Felix Murove
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Ethics written by Munyaradzi Felix Murove and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive volume on African ethics, centered on Ubuntu and its relevance today. Important contemporary issues are explored, such as African bioethics, business ethics, traditional African attitudes to the environment, and the possible development of a new form of democracy based on indigenous African political systems. In a world that has become interconnected, this anthology demonstrates that African ethics can make valuable contributions to global ethics. It is not only African academics, students, organizations, or those individuals committed to ethics that are envisaged as the beneficiaries of this book, but all humankind. A number of topics presented here were inspired by a Shona proverb that says, Ndarira imwe hairiri (One brass wire cannot produce a sound). The chorus of voices in African Ethics demonstrates this proverbial truism.

Environmental Ethics

Author : Holmes Rolston
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439903913
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Ethics written by Holmes Rolston and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic account of values carried by the natural world.

Elements of African Bioethics in a Western Frame

Author : Godfrey B. Tangwa
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956578150
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Elements of African Bioethics in a Western Frame written by Godfrey B. Tangwa and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millennia, Africans have lived on the African continent, In close contact with the diversities of nature: floral, faunal and human; and in so doing they have developed cultures, values, attitudes and perspectives To The problems, ethical and otherwise, that have arisen from the existential pressures of their situation. The problem, however, Is that such values and perspectives do not necessarily form coherent ethical theories. Theory-making is a second order activity requiring a certain amount of leisure and comfort which the existential conditions of life on the African continent have not easily permitted in the retrospect-able past. The elements of African bioethics are to be found in its cultural values, traditions, customs and practices. These are research-able, highlight-able and usable by those who would. The bioethical problems of our current global existential situation are such that all possible solutions, no matter their provenance, ought to be tried. Western culture†has far too loud a voice combined with deaf ears in contemporary ethical discourse. But it should never be forgotten that other cultures†have their own word to say and that alternative values, ways of thinking and practices exist, and attempt should always be made to bring these out and to highlight them, if they could possibly contribute To The satisfactory solution of a global problem. This book brings together various papers on bioethical issues and problems, written at different times, some previously published, each of which attempts to bring out some African†elements, perspective or concern. The African narrative style predominates through these essays but their framing conforms, more or less, To the Western paradigm for presenting academic issues.

Environmental Ethics and Film

Author : Pat Brereton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317752686
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Ethics and Film written by Pat Brereton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental ethics presents and defends a systematic and comprehensive account of the moral relation between human beings and their natural environment and assumes that human behaviour toward the natural world can and is governed by moral norms. In contemporary society, film has provided a powerful instrument for the moulding of such ethical attitudes. Through a close examination of the medium, Environmental Ethics and Film explores how historical ethical values can be re-imagined and re-constituted for more contemporary audiences. Building on an extensive back-catalogue of eco-film analysis, the author focuses on a diverse selection of contemporary films which target audiences’ ethical sensibilities in very different ways. Each chapter focuses on at least three close readings of films and documentaries, examining a wide range of environmental issues as they are illustrated across contemporary Hollywood films. This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of environmental communication, film studies, media and cultural studies, environmental philosophy and ethics.

Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection

Author : Lisa H. Sideris
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231126601
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection written by Lisa H. Sideris and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa Sideris proposes a new way of thinking about the natural world, an environmental ethic that incorporates the ideas of natural selection and values the processes rather than the products of nature. Such an approach encourages us to take a minimally interventionist approach to nature. Only when the competitive realities of evolution are faced squarely, Sideris argues, can we generate practical environmental principles to deal with such issues as species extinction and the relationship between suffering and sentience.

Exploring Environmental Ethics

Author : Kimberly K. Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331977395X
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Environmental Ethics written by Kimberly K. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed as a basic text for courses that are part of an interdisciplinary program in environmental studies. The intended reader is anyone who expects environmental stewardship to be an important part of his or her life, as a citizen, a policy maker, or an environmental management professional. In addition to discussing major issues in environmental ethics, it invites readers to think about how an ethicist's perspective differs from the perspectives encountered in other environmental studies courses. Additional topics covered include corporate social responsibility, ecological citizenship, property theory, and the concept of stewardship as a vocation.

Nature as Subject

Author : Eric Katz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847683048
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Nature as Subject written by Eric Katz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the instrumental figures in environmental ethics, Nature as Subject traces the development of an ethical policy that is centered not on human beings, but on itself. Katz applies this idea to contemporary environmental problems, introducing themes of justice, domination, imperialism, and the Holocaust. This volume will stand as a foundational work for environmental scholars, government and industry policy makers, activists, and students in advanced philosophy and environmental studies courses.

African American Environmental Thought

Author : Kimberly K. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book African American Environmental Thought written by Kimberly K. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the works of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and several other canonical figures, to uncover a rich and vital tradition of black environmental thought from the abolition movement through the Harlem Renaissance. Provides the first careful linkage of the early conservation movement to black history, the first detailed description of black agrarianism, and the first analysis of scientific racism as an environmental theory.

Managing the Environmental Crisis in Ghana

Author : Kwasi Nyamekye
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144387132X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Managing the Environmental Crisis in Ghana written by Kwasi Nyamekye and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the strong inroads that Western scientism and Western Christianity have made in Africa as a result of colonialism, post-colonial African governments have tended to rely solely on Western scientific conservation epistemologies and models to the neglect of those of the Indigenous African peoples in addressing their environmental problems. However, there is enough evidence that neither modern (scientific) nor indigenous epistemologies and modes of addressing current ecological problems ar...

Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World

Author : Deane Curtin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742578488
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Book Synopsis Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World by : Deane Curtin

Download or read book Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World written by Deane Curtin and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005-01-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deane Curtin puts today's most important social and environmental ethical issues into their historical, political, and philosophical contexts, and offers deep insights into the nature of our freedom and its relation to justice in our globalized, commercialized culture. Using familiar literary and historical icons to make surprising points about colonial attitudes and practices, he also demonstrates the unique linkages between colonialism and environmentalism. Using an array of well-documented cases from around the world, Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World is an accessible and very readable book ideal for students of environmental ethics, globalization, environmental politics, or environmental political theory, as well as for anyone interested in policy and practical options for change.

Debating African Philosophy

Author : George Hull
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429796277
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Debating African Philosophy written by George Hull and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In African countries there has been a surge of intellectual interest in foregrounding ideas and thinkers of African origin—in philosophy as in other disciplines—that have been unjustly ignored or marginalized. African scholars have demonstrated that precolonial African cultures generated ideas and arguments which were at once truly philosophical and distinctively African, and several contemporary African thinkers are now established figures in the philosophical mainstream. Yet, despite the universality of its themes, relevant contributions from African philosophy have rarely permeated global philosophical debates. Critical intellectual excavation has also tended to prioritize precolonial thought, overlooking more recent sources of home-grown philosophical thinking such as Africa’s intellectually rich liberation movements. This book demonstrates the potential for constructive interchange between currents of thought from African philosophy and other intellectual currents within philosophy. Chapters authored by leading and emerging scholars: recover philosophical thinkers and currents of ideas within Africa and about Africa, bringing them into dialogue with contemporary mainstream philosophy; foreground the relevance of African theorizing to contemporary debates in epistemology, philosophy of language, moral/political philosophy, philosophy of race, environmental ethics and the metaphysics of disability; make new interventions within on-going debates in African philosophy; consider ways in which philosophy can become epistemically inclusive, interrogating the contemporary call for ‘decolonization’ of philosophy. Showing how foregrounding Africa—its ideas, thinkers and problems—can help with the project of renewing and improving the discipline of philosophy worldwide, this book will stimulate and challenge everyone with an interest in philosophy, and is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate students, postgraduate students and scholars of African and Africana philosophy.

Ecologies of Grace

Author : Willis Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199989885
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Ecologies of Grace written by Willis Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity struggles to show how living on earth matters for living with God. While people of faith increasingly seek practical ways to respond to the environmental crisis, theology has had difficulty contextualizing the crisis and interpreting the responses. In Ecologies of Grace, Willis Jenkins presents a field-shaping introduction to Christian environmental ethics that offers resources for renewing theology. Observing how religious environmental practices often draw on concepts of grace, Jenkins maps the way Christian environmental strategies draw from traditions of salvation as they engage the problems of environmental ethics. He then uses this new map to explore afresh the ecological dimensions of Christian theology. Jenkins first shows how Christian ethics uniquely frames environmental issues, and then how those approaches both challenge and reinhabit theological traditions. He identifies three major strategies for making environmental problems intelligible to Christian moral experience. Each one draws on a distinct pattern of grace as it adapts a secular approach to environmental ethics. The strategies of ecojustice, stewardship, and ecological spirituality make environments matter for Christian experience by drawing on patterns of sanctification, redemption, and deification. He then confronts the problems of each of these strategies through critical reappraisals of Thomas Aquinas, Karl Barth, and Sergei Bulgakov. Each represents a soteriological tradition which Jenkins explores as an ecology of grace, letting environmental questions guide investigation into how nature becomes significant for Christian experience. By being particularly sensitive to the ways in which environmental problems are made intelligible to Christian moral experience, Jenkins guides his readers toward a fuller understanding of Christianity and ecology. He not only makes sense of the variety of Christian environmental ethics, but by showing how environmental issues come to the heart of Christian experience, prepares fertile ground for theological renewal.

Earth's Insights

Author : J. Baird Callicott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520085604
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Earth's Insights written by J. Baird Callicott and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although environmental crisis is global in scope, contemporary environmental ethics is centered predominantly in Western philosophy and religion. EARTH'S INSIGHTS widens the scope to include the ecological teachings embedded in non-Western world views. Conservationist J. Baird Callicott asks how the world's diverse environmental philosophies can be brought together to benefit the whole?

Environmental Ethics

Author : Andrew Light
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631222934
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Ethics written by Andrew Light and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2002-08-26 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Ethics: An Anthology brings together both classic and cutting-edge essays which have formed contemporary environmental ethics, ranging from the welfare of animals versus ecosystems to theories of the intrinsic value of nature.

African Environmental Ethics

Author : Munamato Chemhuru
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030188078
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book African Environmental Ethics written by Munamato Chemhuru and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on under-explored and often neglected issues in contemporary African environmental philosophy and ethics. Critical issues such as the moral status of nature, African conceptions of animal moral status and rights, African conceptions of environmental justice, African relational Environmentalism, ubuntu, African theocentric and teleological environmentalism are addressed in this book. It is unique in so far as it goes beyond the generalized focus on African metaphysics and African ethics by exploring how these views might be understood differently in order to conceptualize African environmental ethics. Against the background where environmental problems such as pollution, climate change, extinction of flora and fauna, and global warming are plain to see, it becomes useful to examine how African conceptions of environmental ethics could be understood in order to confront some of these problems facing the whole world. This book will be of value to undergraduate students, graduate students and academics working in the area of African Philosophy, African Environmental Ethics and Global Ethics in general.