| Calgary Institute for the Humanities - 1993 - 215 pages
...all, can supplant them entirely.) The classic statement of this holistic view is that of Aldo Leopold: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise" (1970, 262). Ethical standing belongs not (or not just) to individual... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works - 1978 - 1810 pages
...question in Urma of what is ethically and esthetically right, aa well aa what Is economically expedient. A thing is right when It tends to preserve the Integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotlc community. It la wrong when it tends otherwise." Thank you Mr. Chairman for thia opportunity... | |
| Les Joslin - 2005 - 182 pages
...ethic provides a moral foundation that helps a manager make the right decisions. As Leopold wrote: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community, ...the soil, waters fauna, and flora, as well as people. A thing is wrong when its tends... | |
| Valerie Harms - 2005 - 219 pages
...for food or research the answer. In the end Aldo Leopold's most famous maxim matters most: "a thing's right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. "98 Religions have historically supported ethical respect for... | |
| Julian H. Franklin - 2005 - 188 pages
...thinkers. Aldo Leopold is illustrative of this latter tendency. "A thing is right," 1O6 he states, "when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." The implications of this view include the clear prospect that... | |
| Daniel A. Vallero - 2006 - 596 pages
...his famous essays, posthumously published as A Sand County Almanac, argued for a holistic approach: A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.18 Laying out canons and principles for... | |
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