Titlebook: Ecology and Justice—Citizenship in Biotic Communities; David R. Keller Book 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 Arcadianism.Beauty in

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Patterned Process in Biological Evolutionlar species compete with each other for survival. Those that are most fit for survival are more likely to survive, and hence are more likely to produce offspring that are similarly fit. And so on. But environmental conditions are constantly changing, and random genetic mutation produces new forms, s

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Realism or Relativism? they are contingent upon human consciousness. Neither alternative allows for an adequate epistemology for ecology. Cartesian realism, for example, depends upon a metaphysical distinction between mind and matter as two distinct substances that share no properties, and hence cannot be conceived as ca

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From Empiricism and Rationalism to Kant and Nietzscheosophy that focuses on knowledge: what it is and how it is obtained. It can be divided into four different methodologies: Rationalism, Empiricism, Kantianism, and Perspectivism. Pure rationalism, à la Descartes, fails by erecting an unbridgeable gulf between mind and matter (“mind-matter dualism”),

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Ethics of Ecologynd beauty of nature. This is in turn a necessary condition for bringing about ecological justice, understood as comprised of justice to both human and nonhuman organisms and systems. Because humans are moral agents embedded in biotic communities, our actions inescapably impact other beings worthy of

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