| 书目名称 | Speaking of Forms of Life | | 副标题 | The Language of Cons | | 编辑 | Claudio Campagna,Daniel Guevara | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Advocates an approach to species conservation that departs from dominant use value approach.Offers conservationists a naturalistic theory to ground their actions.Establishes the use of language as an | | 丛书名称 | Fascinating Life Sciences | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .Humans pose an unprecedented threat to life in all its great diversity of forms. The human-induced extinction rate has been compared to “mass extinctions” of the past. But this language masks the fact that the crisis is due to voluntary, and thus, avoidable choices and actions. .“.Speaking of Forms of Life”. shows that at the root of this crisis is the tragic inadequacy of the language predominantly used to represent and address what we are doing, including the language of “sustainable development,” “rights” for animals and the rest of nature, their “intrinsic value,” and conservation of species as “populations.” This talk alienates us from the other living things, from what they actually are, have and do, and it perpetuates the harm and loss. Campagna and Guevara compellingly argue, on rigorous but accessible grounds, that there is an alternative language to guide conservation, in confronting the radically urgent, ethical issues it faces. This is a language with which we are all familiar, mastered by naturalists, from Aristotle to Audubon. It articulates the primary value in life and the standard that must guide how human beings should live, as one form of life, among countless o | | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | | 关键词 | Conservation; Forms of life; Natural Goodness; Natural-historical propositions; Species | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34534-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-34536-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-34534-0Series ISSN 2509-6745 Series E-ISSN 2509-6753 | | issn_series | 2509-6745 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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