ABSTRACT Paul B. Thompson’s agrarian ethic aims to unite the core agricultural value of providing sustenance for people with the environmental value of preserving nature into the future. His recently revised and updated book, The Spirit of the Soil, constructs a conceptual framework for evaluating normative issues in food ethics, the political economy of agriculture, and agricultural policy, as well as in environmental policy insofar as it affects agriculture. He demonstrates that the essential move in agricultural and environmental ethics is to identify systemic causes of specific problems. This makes it possible to imagine reform at the level of systems—such as economic systems, agricultural systems, and ecosystems—in a way that addresses the root causes of related problems. Thompson’s work demonstrates how engaged philosophical practice can advance philosophical inquiry while at the same time having an impact on public policy.

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统一农业与环境伦理

摘要保罗·汤普森（Paul B. Thompson）的农业伦理旨在团结核心农业价值，即为人类提供生存的环境价值，并将其保存在未来的自然环境中。他最近修订和更新的著作《土壤的精神》构建了一个概念框架，用于评估食品伦理，农业政治经济，农业政策以及环境政策中影响农业的规范性问题。他证明了农业和环境伦理学的基本举措是查明特定问题的系统性原因。这样就可以想象在系统级别（例如经济系统，农业系统和生态系统）进行的改革，其方式可以解决相关问题的根本原因。