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Agricultural Ethics in East Asian Perspective

A Transpacific Dialogue

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Editors:
  1. Paul B. Thompson

    1. Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

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  2. Kirill O. Thompson

    1. Institute for the Advanced Studies, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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  • The only work presenting East-West perspectives in agrarian and environmental ethics, agricultural biotechnology, food ethics and alternative agriculture
  • Provides a useful introduction to agrarian thought and values in East Asia
  • Includes reports on recent fieldwork in preserving agricultural heritage and building consensus on sustainable farming in East Asia

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Agrarian Environmental Philosophy in an Inter-cultural Context

    • Paul B. Thompson
    Pages 1-11

  3. Agrarian Tradition and Chinese Culture: An Interpretive Overview

    • Chun-chieh Huang
    Pages 13-22

  4. The Agricultural Ethics of Ninomiya Sontoku

    • Tomosaburo Yamauchi
    Pages 23-35

  5. Andō Shōeki’s Agrarian Utopianism: An East Asian Philosophical Contextualization

    • John A. Tucker
    Pages 37-56

  6. Agricultural Ethics in Early Chinese Perspective: Some Issues

    • Kirill O. Thompson
    Pages 57-75

  7. Analysis of the Relationship Between Eco-humanity in Ancient China and Its Conduct of Agriculture

    • Huaike Xu
    Pages 77-93

  8. Food Ethics as More Than Food Security: Asia’s Critical Role in Discourses Around Animal Welfare and Environmental Challenges

    • Raymond Anthony
    Pages 95-131

  9. An Ethical Theory Analysis of the Food System Discourse

    • Ronald Sandler
    Pages 133-143

  10. Theorizing Alternative Agriculture and Food Movements: The Obstacle of Dichotomous Thinking

    • Lisa Heldke
    Pages 145-161

  11. Zhuangzi and Agricultural Ethics

    • Kai-Yuan Cheng
    Pages 163-181

  12. Food Ethics Based on Three Level Eco-holism

    • Tomosaburo Yamauchi
    Pages 183-195

  13. What Does “Soil Is Valuable” Mean? Institutional Design and Ethics for Sustainable Use of Soil Resources

    • Kazuhiko Ota, Tomoyoshi Murata, Toshiaki Ohkura, Ryunosuke Hamada
    Pages 197-211

  14. Food, Technology, and Identity

    • Soraj Hongladarom
    Pages 213-221
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About this book

This book brings together agricultural ethics scholars from the US, Japan and Taiwan to discuss crucial issues in agricultural ethics and sustainability ethics in comparative context.  Agricultural ethics and sustainability ethics are wide-ranging and closely linked to environmental ethics, bioethics, virtue ethics, animal welfare, soil conservation, not to mention rural traditions and lifestyles.  Six of the chapters cover historical traditions and values in Europe, the US and East Asia.  Four of the chapters cover the role of virtue ethics in the analysis of agrarian and environmental ethics, agricultural biotechnology, food ethics, and alternative agriculture, respectively.  Finally, two of the chapters cover field efforts of agricultural ethics involving preserving agricultural heritage and building consensus for sustainable farming, respectively.  Although the papers are divided into three groups, their contents are interconnected and mutually informative.

Reviews

“It has the merit of opening up prospects on agricultural ethics for the non-specialist reader while providing extremely well detailed analyses likely to enrich the reflections of the expert environmental ethics specialist. … This publication offers a valuable insight into how enriching a cross-cultural dialogue might be.” (Leila Chakroun, Environmental Values, Vol.28 (5), October, 2019)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

    Paul B. Thompson

  • Institute for the Advanced Studies, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Kirill O. Thompson

About the editors

Kirill Thompson – b. Northfield, Minnesota. Received advanced degrees from the University of Hawaii. Teaches in the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department & serves as Assoc. Dean for Humanities at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (IHS) of NTU. Currently a short-term visiting research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Research (IAR) of Nagoya University. Thompson is broadly interested in the humanities.  Specialized in the philosophy of Zhu Xi and Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism, he also investigates early Chinese philosophy, e.g., Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Sophism, such later traditions as Buddhism, Japanese Confucianism, and Zen. He is also interested in Greek thought through Plato, modern philosophy, and 19th and 20th century philosophy, such as American transcendentalism, existentialism, early analytic philosophy, notably Wittgenstein, etc.  He has published book chapters, articles, and reviews in Chinese philosophy in Philosophy East and West, Asian Philosophy, China Review International, etc., and on Samuel Beckett, Thorstein Veblen, Thomas Gray, Henry David Thoreau, and other kindred spirits. He is currently involved in “humanities for the environment” projects.

Professor Paul B. Thompson holds the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University, where he serves on the faculty in the departments of Philosophy, Community Sustainability and Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and has held posts at Texas A&M University and Purdue University. Thompson’s research and teaching has focused on ethical and philosophical topics in food and agriculture. He is the author or co-author of over two hundred articles in refereed journals or scholarly books. His book From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. It won the “Book of the Year” award for 2015 from the North American Society for Social Philosophy.  His book The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics was released in a revised and updated second edition in 2017.

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