| FOREWORD TO THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION | ix | |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | xiii | |
| ONE. ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND HUMAN ETHICS | 3 | |
| 1. | Introduction | 3 |
| 2. | Moral Agents and Moral Subjects | 14 |
| 3. | Formal Conditions for Valid Moral Principles | 25 |
| 4. | Material Conditions for Valid Moral Principles: The Content of Human Ethics | 33 |
| 5. | The Structural Symmetry between Human Ethics and Environmental Ethics | 41 |
| 6. | Biology and Ethics | 47 |
| 7. | A Note on the Ethics of the Bioculture | 53 |
| TWO. THE ATTITUDE OF RESPECT FOR NATURE | 59 | |
| 1. | Introduction | 59 |
| 2. | The Concept of the Good of a Being | 60 |
| 3. | The Concept of Inherent Worth | 71 |
| 4. | Having and Expressing the Attitude of Respect for Nature | 80 |
| 5. | Respect for Nature as an Ultimate Attitude | 90 |
| THREE. THE BIOCENTRIC OUTLOOK ON NATURE | 99 | |
| 1. | The Biocentric Outlook and the Attitude of Respect for Nature | 99 |
| 2. | Humans as Members of the Earth’s Community of Life | 101 |
| 3. | The Natural World as a System of Interdependence | 116 |
| 4. | Individual Organisms as Teleological Centers of Life | 119 |
| 5. | The Denial of Human Superiority | 129 |
| 6. | The Argument for the Biocentric Outlook | 156 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics.
Contributors: Paul W. Taylor - Author.
Publisher: Princeton University Press.
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ.
Publication year: 2011.
Page number: vii.
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