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Zen Buddhism and the Intrinsic Value of Nature |
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James, Simon P.
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| Source |
Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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| Volume | v.4 n.2 |
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| Date | 2003.11 |
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| Pages | 143 - 157 |
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| Publisher | Routledge |
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https://www.routledge.com/
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| Location | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | Zen Buddhism; Environmentalism; Buddhist Doctrines; Madhyamika (Buddhism); Religions |
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| Abstract | Part I It is a perennial theme in the literature on environmental ethics that the exploitation of the environment is the result of a blindness to (or perhaps a refusal to recognize) the intrinsic value of natural beings. The general story here is that Western traditions of thought have tended to accord natural beings value only to the extent that they prove useful to humans, that they have tended to see nature as only instrumentally valuable. By contrast, it is said that a new, environmentally friendly understanding of the world would value nature ‘for its own sake’, would conceive natural beings as having intrinsic value. In the light of such an understanding, the oak tree, for instance, would be seen not merely as a source of timber or shade or as a decoration for the front lawn, but as valuable ‘in itself’, as having an intrinsic value that ought to be respected (see further, O'Neill 1993, chapter 2). |
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| Table of contents | Part I 143
Part II 143
Part III 144
Part IV 145
Part V 147
Part VI 148
Part VII 151
Part VIII 153
Part IX 155
Notes 156
References 156
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| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1080/1463994032000162965 |
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| Hits | 455 |
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| Created date | 2007.11.20 |
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| Modified date | 2017.06.29 |
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