Ecology, Community and Lifestyle

The basic thesis of the work is that environmental problems are only to be solved by people - people who will be required to make value judgements in conflicts that go beyond narrowly conceived human concerns. Thus people require not only an ethical system, but a way of conceiving the world and themselves such that the intrinsic value of life and nature is obvious, a system based on 'deep ecological principles'. The book encourages readers to identify their own series of such parameters - their own ecosophies. Ecology, Comunity and Lifestyle will appeal to philosophers, specialists working on environmental issues, and the more general reader who is interested in learning some of the foundational ideas of the rapidly expanding field of environmental philosophy.

阿恩•纳斯（1912-2009），挪威著名哲学家，深层生态哲学的创始人，主张一种超越人类中心主义的整体生态思想，通过人类对自然的情感认同和智慧行动，达致人的自我实现与多样化自然融为一体的生态智慧。深生态学不仅是西方众多环境理论思潮中最令人瞩目的一种新思想，而且已成为当代西方环境运动中起先导作用的环境价值理念。