| Calgary Institute for the Humanities - 1993 - 215 páginas
...radical view of all, can supplant them entirely.) The classic statement of this holistic view is that of Aldo Leopold: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise" (1970, 262). Ethical standing belongs not (or not just) to individual organisms but to the interrelated... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works - 1978 - 1810 páginas
...enjoyment of the harvest of each year but not of destruction of its source. Aldo Leopold said it best: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." Many Federal agencies have recognized the need to "consider" wildlife in carrying out their overall... | |
| Margaret Morse Nice - 1983 - 140 páginas
...may become civilized. PHYLLIS CLODD 4 i Д thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrizV ty, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." ALDO STARKER LEOPOLD TELEPHONE THE PAST APPRECIATED I he great school of poetical story-tellers died... | |
| Albert R. Jonsen - 2005 - 218 páginas
...have no known human utility. One of the founders of environmental science, Aldo Leopold, wrote that "a thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."4 Ethical action, in any situation, would transcend the human-centered view and attempt... | |
| Sahotra Sarkar - 2005 - 292 páginas
...limitation to human interests is not required. Consider, for instance, Leopold's famous "land ethic": "[a] thing is right when it tends to preserve the...of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends to do otherwise."18 This claim is often taken to be an assertion of intrinsic2 value (see § 3.3).... | |
| Mark I. Wallace - 2005 - 212 páginas
...the lifeways of original American landscapes. He is well known for articulating the moral rule that "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."'4This deep ecology principle — what Leopold referred to as a "land ethic" — expresses... | |
| Harry L. Hinkle - 190 páginas
...[our] true place as a dependent member of the biotic community" (PAJ 105-6). Leopold was utterly clear: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherA PAIR OF MERTON S BOOTS, MERTON CENTER ARCHIVES, BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY /V1DW #MF4I-O6 MERTON... | |
| Daniel A. Vallero - 2006 - 596 páginas
...his famous essays, posthumously published as A Sand County Almanac, argued for a holistic approach: A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.9 The land ethic was articulated about a decade after the Pruitt Igoe project was built,... | |
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