Ebook: The Ethics of Nature

This accessible and timely book uses a Christian perspective to explore ethical debates about nature.

• A detailed exploration of humanity’s treatment of the natural world from a Christian perspective.
  
• Covers a range of ethical debates, including current controversies about the environment, animal rights, biotechnology, consciousness, and cloning.
  
• Sets the immediate issues in the context of underlying theological and philosophical assumptions.
  
• Complex scientific issues are explained in clear student-friendly language.
  
• The author develops her own distinctive ethical approach centred on the practice of wisdom.
  
• Discusses key figures in the field, including Peter Singer, Aldo Leopold, Tom Regan, Andrew Linzey, James Lovelock, Anne Primavesi, Rosemary Radford Ruether, and Michael Northcott.
  
• The author has held academic posts in both theology and plant science.

Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Recovery of Virtue for an Ethics of Nature (pages 1–28):
Chapter 2 Environmental Ethics (pages 29–53):
Chapter 3 Animal Ethics (pages 54–85):
Chapter 4 The Ethics of Biotechnology (pages 86–110):
Chapter 5 The Ethics of Cloning (pages 111–135):
Chapter 6 Psychology and Moral Agency (pages 136–161):
Chapter 7 Ethics and Gaia (pages 162–185):
Chapter 8 Feminism and the Ethics of Nature (pages 186–213):
Chapter 9 Towards an Ethic of Wisdom (pages 214–236):