BOOKS - Moral Geographies: Ethics in a World of Difference
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Moral Geographies: Ethics in a World of Difference
Author: David M. Smith
Year: May 3, 2000
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 31 MB
Language: English
Year: May 3, 2000
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 31 MB
Language: English
This book explores the interface between geography, ethics and morality. It considers questions that have haunted the past, are subjects of controversy in the present, and which affect the future. Does distance diminish responsibility? Should we interfere with the lives of those we do not know? Is there a distinction between private and public space? Which values and morals, if any, are absolute, and which cultural, communal or personal? And are universal rights consistent with respect for difference? David Smith shows how these questions play themselves out in politics, planning, development, social and personal relations, the exploitation of resources, and competition for territory. After introducing the essential elements of moral philosophy from Plato to postmodernism, he examines the moral significance of concepts of landscape, location and place, proximity, distance and community, space and territory, justice, and nature. He is concerned above all with the morality people practice, to se