{"id":4244,"date":"2017-01-02T11:10:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T15:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2017-01-02T11:10:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T15:10:27","slug":"dependent-origination-and-the-value-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2017\/01\/02\/dependent-origination-and-the-value-of-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Dependent Origination and the Value of Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 24, 2017<\/h6>\n<h3>Dependent Origination, Emptiness, and the Value of Nature<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>David Cummiskey and Alex Hamilton<br \/>\nBates College<\/p>\n<p>This article explains the importance of the Buddhist doctrine of dependent origination to contemporary environmental ethics and also develops a Buddhist account of the relational, non-instrumental, and impersonal value of nature. The article\u2019s methodology is \u201ccomparative\u201d or \u201cfusion\u201d philosophy. In particular, dependent origination and N\u0101g\u0101rjuna\u2019s doctrine of emptiness are developed in contrast to Aldo Leopold and J. Baird Callicott\u2019s conception of deep ecology, and the Buddhist conception of value is developed using Christine Korsgaard\u2019s Kantian analysis of the distinction between intrinsic\/extrinsic value and means\/ends value.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2017\/01\/Cummisky-and-Hamilton-Value-of-Nature-final.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 24, 2017 Dependent Origination, Emptiness, and the Value of Nature David Cummiskey and Alex Hamilton Bates College This article explains the importance of the Buddhist doctrine of dependent origination to contemporary environmental ethics and also develops a Buddhist account of the relational, non-instrumental, and impersonal value of nature. The article\u2019s methodology is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2017\/01\/02\/dependent-origination-and-the-value-of-nature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dependent Origination and the Value of Nature<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99241],"tags":[2731,2545,2596],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-24-2017","tag-emptiness","tag-environment","tag-zen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-16s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}