- 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
Leopold’s Darwin
Leopold’s Darwin
Climbing Mountains, Developing Land
- Chapter:
- (p.102) 14 Leopold’s Darwin
- Source:
- Frog Pond Philosophy
- Author(s):
Strachan Donnelley
, Ceara Donnelley, Bruce Jennings- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
This chapter contains one of the most detailed and extended discussions of the thought of Aldo Leopold in the book. Leopold represents a synthesis of evolutionary, Darwinian thought and an ecological and conservation perspective. The issues Leopold addressed are perennial ones in the history of Western philosophy. He stressed not timeless essence and transcendence but dynamic worldliness, adaptation, and transformation. His thought is not dogmatic or certain but nuanced and ambivalent. It has a scientific and a spiritual side. In the end Leopold can help us be guided by the demands of our own humanity and our historical natural home, and we can be moved by broad, generous, and nuanced senses of moral care, fairness, and respect for the various forms and capacities of life.
Keywords: Aldo Leopold, Charles Darwin, Leopold’s philosophy, care, fairness, respect for life
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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
