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  • Environmental Virtue Ethics in Buddhism

    Creator:
    Peng, Chih-Wei
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    In this thesis, in order to understand why Buddhists in Southeast Asia protect rainforests and to establish a solid foundation for Buddhist environmental ethic, my first two tasks are to draw a clear picture regarding two major environmental concepts--nature and anthropocentrism--in Buddhism and to defend the claims that the Buddhist...
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    Masters Thesis
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    between traditional Western ethics and environmental ethics is that most influential Western ethical

  • A Practical, Ethical Critique of Hydraulic Fracturing and the Shale Gas Extraction Process

    Creator:
    Bullock, Claude George, III
    Abstract:
    This thesis analyzes the emerging technology of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas extraction process through a pluralistic philosophical approach. Rather than defending traditional values in nature, such as intrinsic value, I defend a metaphilosophical pragmatism centered on policy implications. I argue that different philosophical positions will, most of the time,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency. I argue the exemptions are unwarranted and structurally

  • The cage has two sides : an ethical perspective of prison abolition

    Creator:
    Lenn, Christopher
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    Current calls for prison abolition have been met with major public resistance. It is time for movements for prison abolition to engage with these questions: How have contemporary people of the United States come to accept mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex, and, what is the impact? Using an...
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    Masters Thesis
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    industrial complex, and, what is the impact? Using an ethical framework informed by Martin Buber’s I-It

  • Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

    Creator:
    Richards, Linda Marie
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    The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...
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    Dissertation
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    rights, limited moral and ethical questions to a scientific realm, considered by experts and turning on