Celebrating Aldo Leopold's land ethic at 70

John J. Piccolo

doi:10.1111/cobi.13526

LEOPOLD'S NOVEL:THE LAND ETHIC IN BARBARA KINGSOLVER'SPRODIGAL SUMMER

Ethics & the Environment ◽

10.2979/ete.2003.8.2.106 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 106-125 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Peter S. Wenz

Keyword(s):

Land Ethic

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In Defense of the Land Ethic: Essays in Environmental Philosophy. By J. Baird Callicott

Environmental History Review ◽

10.2307/3984538 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 98-99

Author(s):

S. Ebenreck

Keyword(s):

Environmental Philosophy ◽

Land Ethic

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Re-Examining the Darwinian Basis for Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic

Ethics Policy & Environment ◽

10.1080/21550085.2015.1111617 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 301-317 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Roberta L. Millstein

Keyword(s):

Land Ethic

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Why Teach Environmental Ethics? Because We Already Do

Worldviews Global Religions Culture and Ecology ◽

10.1163/1568535042690790 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 8 (2-3) ◽

pp. 227-242

Author(s):

Christine Benton ◽

Raymond Benton

Keyword(s):

Environmental Ethics ◽

Personal Experience ◽

Environmental Issues ◽

Environmental Ethic ◽

Ethical Dimension ◽

Land Ethic ◽

The Way

AbstractIn this paper we argue for the importance of the formal teaching of environmental ethics. This is, we argue, both because environmental ethics is needed to respond to the environmental issues generated by the neoliberal movement in politics and economics, and because a form of environmental ethics is implicit, but unexamined, in that which is currently taught. We maintain that students need to become aware of the latent ethical dimension in what they are taught. To help them, we think that they need to understand how models and metaphors structure and impact their worldviews. We describe how a simple in-class exercise encourages students to experience the way metaphors organize feelings, courses of action, and cognitive understandings. This is then intellectualized by way of Clifford Geertz's concept of culture and his model for the analysis of sacred symbols. From there we present a brief interpretation of modern economics as the embodiment of the dominant modern ethos. This leads into a consideration of ecology as a science, and to the environmental ethic embodied in Aldo Leopold's "Land Ethic." We close with a personal experience that highlights how environmental teaching can make students aware of the presence of an implicit, but unexamined, environmental ethic.

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