- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 Prelude -
2 Prelude -
3 Frog Pond Philosophy -
4 Intelligent Design and the Matter of Matter -
5 Kansas on My Mind -
6 Scientists’ Public Responsibilities -
7 Bottom Lines and the Earth’s Future -
8 Transgenic Animals and Wild Nature -
9 Nature’s Wildness -
10 Wild Turkeys and Old Gobblers -
11 Big Little Snake -
12 Hunting Hennepin’s Windblown Bottom -
13 Leopold’s Wildness -
14 Leopold’s Darwin -
15 What Philosophic Cosmology Can Teach Us -
16 Nature Alive in Spinoza and Whitehead -
17 Neo-Darwinian Cosmologies -
18 Life and the Ethics of Responsibility -
19 The Philosopher’s Poet -
20 Francis of Mepkin - Editors’ Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- References
- Index
- Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism
Bottom Lines and the Earth’s Future
Bottom Lines and the Earth’s Future
- Chapter:
- (p.47) 7 Bottom Lines and the Earth’s Future
- Source:
- Frog Pond Philosophy
- Author(s):
Strachan Donnelley
, Ceara Donnelley, Bruce Jennings- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
This chapter questions and challenges the tendency to define single ultimate values and then elevate them to grow into full-fledged worldviews by which we live. The principal example discussed here is the profit orientation and imperative of a market society. This chapter warns against embracing an exclusive economic approach to conservation and ecological issues, not because assigning a monetary value to ecosystem services and values cannot sometimes be useful, but because the monetary worldview is ultimately overweening and misleading for the conservation movement. The chapter concludes with a sketch and overview of the worldview that grows out of the philosophies of nature discussed later in the book as an ecocentric value-based alternative to profit-oriented market incentives.
Keywords: market society, profit, worldviews, conservation, ecological worldview
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 Prelude -
2 Prelude -
3 Frog Pond Philosophy -
4 Intelligent Design and the Matter of Matter -
5 Kansas on My Mind -
6 Scientists’ Public Responsibilities -
7 Bottom Lines and the Earth’s Future -
8 Transgenic Animals and Wild Nature -
9 Nature’s Wildness -
10 Wild Turkeys and Old Gobblers -
11 Big Little Snake -
12 Hunting Hennepin’s Windblown Bottom -
13 Leopold’s Wildness -
14 Leopold’s Darwin -
15 What Philosophic Cosmology Can Teach Us -
16 Nature Alive in Spinoza and Whitehead -
17 Neo-Darwinian Cosmologies -
18 Life and the Ethics of Responsibility -
19 The Philosopher’s Poet -
20 Francis of Mepkin - Editors’ Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- References
- Index
- Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism
