Bookchin breaks with Anarchism

by Janet Biehl, in Communalism, October 2007


For much of his adult life Murray Bookchin was known as a major anarchist theorist, perhaps the most wide-ranging and innovative of the twentieth century. When he died in July 2006, the Times (London) Online called him “the most important anarchist thinker in North America for more than a quarter of a century.” But the fact is that by the time of his death Murray no longer identified himself as an anarchist. As early as 1995 he was telling the people closest to him that he no longer considered himself part of that movement. At a conference in 1999 in Plainfield Vermont he made the rupture public; and he put it in writing in 2002, in an article published online. Read the full article...

Can you eat meat and still be an enviro?

Συμφωνείτε με την δήλωση του εκπροσώπου της PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), "Δεν μπορείς να τρως κρέας και να λέγεσαι οικολόγος";

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ΑΝΑΚΟΙΝΩΣΗ: Ethics and the Politics of Food

Special Issue
Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
Vol. 20, N. 5 (October 2007)

What’s the Use of Pets?

ORION Magazine, September/October 2007 issue

Wildness and domesticity at Global Pet Expo
by Ginger Strand

Animal Consciouness - Do Animals Feel Pain?

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New Paper

The new ecological paradigm revisited: anchoring the NEP scale in environmental ethics

by Carina Lundmark
in Environmental Education Research, Volume 13, Issue 3 July 2007 , pages 329 - 347

ABSTRACT

The New Environmental or Ecological Paradigm (NEP) is widely acknowledged as a reliable multiple-item scale to capture environmental attitudes or beliefs. It has been used in statistical analyses for almost 30 years, primarily by psychologists, but also by political scientists, sociologists and geographers. The scale's theoretical foundation is, however, seldom discussed and not comprehensively specified. This article explores the environmental ethics that underlies the scale, analysing which ethical positions on human - nature relations the scale seem to match. The study shows that pronounced forms of anthropocentrism are well captured by the scale, while the environmental position is 'shallow' rather than 'deep green' and misses crucial elements of the contemporary environmental ethics debate.

Η αντικειμενική πραγματικότητα και η οικολογική αριστερά

του Τάσου Χοβαρδά

Ένα από τα ζητήματα που υπήρξε πάντοτε επίκαιρο για τη φιλοσοφία είναι ο τρόπος με τον οποίο η σκέψη ιδιοποιείται τον κόσμο και επομένως η απόσταση του πραγματικού από τη γνώση του πραγματικού. Υπάρχει μια πραγματικότητα αντικειμενική, έξω από την ανθρώπινη σκέψη; Και, αν η αντικειμενική αυτή πραγματικότητα υπάρχει, είναι προσβάσιμη στην ανθρώπινη σκέψη ως απόλυτη γνώση; Διαβάστε το κείμενο...