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  • A THEORY OF VALUE AND OBLIGATION
    ROBIN ATTFIELD
    Originally published in 1987 and re-issued in 2020 with a new Preface, this book presents and elaborates interrelated solutions to a number of problems in moral philosophy, from the location of intrinsic value and the nature of a worthwhile life, via the limits of obligation and the nature of justice, to the status of moral utterances. After developing a biocentric account of m...

    $1,000.00

  • CREATION, EVOLUTION AND MEANING
    ROBIN ATTFIELD
    This book presents the case for belief in both creation and evolution at the same time as rejecting creationism. Issues of meaning supply the context of inquiry; the book defends the meaningfulness of language about God, and also relates belief in both creation and evolution to the meaning of life. Meaning, it claims, can be found in consciously adopting the role of stewards of...

    $1,340.00

  • THE ETHICS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
    ROBIN ATTFIELD
    This book brings together over thirty of the foremost contributions to environmental ethics, from pioneering papers to recent work at the cutting edge of thought in this field. It also unites them through an innovative introductory essay which appraises both strengths and weaknesses and presents a distinctive view of the subject. Areas covered include the land ethic, Deep Ecolo...

    $1,240.00

  • WONDER, VALUE AND GOD
    ROBIN ATTFIELD
    This book relates the value present in the natural world and in human creativity to an underlying purpose which it traces in creation. It opens by invoking the wonder aroused by nature's value and celebrated by poets, and moves to a cosmic purpose as the best explanation of this value. Natural evils are considered and set in their evolutionary context. Human creativity is later...

    $1,340.00

  • ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
    ROBIN ATTFIELD
    In this clear, concise, comprehensively revised and up-to-date introduction to environmental ethics, Robin Attfield guides the student through the key issues and debates in this field in ways that will also be of interest to a wide range of scholars and researchers. The book introduces environmental problems and environmental ethics and surveys theories of the sources of the pr...

    $888.00

  • INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE AND THE THIRD WORLD
    ROBIN ATTFIELD
    International Justice and the Third World vindicates belief in global or universal justice, and explores both liberal and Marxist grounds for such belief. It also investigates the presuppositions of belief in development, and relates it to sustainability, to environmentalism, and to the obligation to cancel Third World debt. ...

    $1,160.00