Record 1 of 1 in Sociological Abstracts 1986-2001/12
TI: Naturalizing Sports: Hunting and Angling in Modern Environments
AU: Franklin,-Adrian
IN: Dept Sociology U Tasmania, Hobart 700 Australia [e-mail:
Adrian.Franklin@utas.edu.au]
SO: International-Review-for-the-Sociology-of-Sport;
1998, 33, 4, Dec, 355-366.
DT: aja Abstract-of-Journal-Article
AB: Investigates the paradoxical coexistence in late modernity of both
heightened sentiments toward animals & the natural world, & the growing attraction of
hunting & angling sports. The significance of this question can be gauged by the
increase in parliamentary & electoral debates over the desirability of hunting &
angling, by violent social conflict between hunters & anglers & their opponents, & by debates over how best to "consume" natural environments. In the literature to date, the ethical & moral standing of the hunter/angler is often prejudged, & their motives taken to derive from a need to exercise violence & cruelty. Discussions of the burgeoning of interest in nature & the environment frequently fails to mention those traditional pursuits that are
shrouded in shame & conflict. It is argued here that enthusiasm for these sports is
historically complex & relates to deeply embedded discourses on antimodernism,
neo-Darwinism, ecologism, & masculinity. Far from being the preserve of traditional, rural
groups, the new proponents of hunting & angling are drawn from sections of the urban middle class for whom such discourses have particular appeal. 19 References. Adapted from the source document
AN: 9907015
Record 1 of 2 in Sociological Abstracts 1986-2001/12
TI: Is Hunting a Right Thing?
AU: List,-Charles-J.
IN: Dept Philosophy State U New York, Plattsburgh
12901 SO: Environmental-Ethics; 1997, 19, 4,
winter, 405-416. DT: aja Abstract-of-Journal-
Article
AB: An argument in support of Aldo Leopold's (1970) defense of sport
hunting as a "right thing" according to the land ethic contends that it is a practice of
conservation that connects humans to the land. The actions of a hunter are ethical if
they meet the standards of integrity, stability, & beauty. It is suggested that Leopold
did not view the se concepts as inherent values of the biotic community, but rather as
labels representing three conduits for the ecological conscience necessary for the
land ethic: the ethical, the ecological, & the aesthetic. It is demonstrated how
Leopold used this model to evaluate hunting & other practices of conservation also to link
the philosophical & ecological evolutionary sequence. The key issue is whether the historical evolution of the practices of hunting are moving in the right direction,
ie, that guided by the land ethic. Adapted from the source document AN: 9816229
Record 2 of 2 in Sociological Abstracts 1986-2001/12
TI: Sport Hunting: Moral or Immoral?
AU: Vitali,-Theodore
IN: Philosophy Dept Saint Louis U, MO 63103
SO: Environmental-Ethics; 1990, 12, 1, spring, 69-82.
DT: aja Abstract-of-Journal-Article
AB: Arguing that sport hunting has become a necessary means of wildlife
management from a financial & political standpoint, moral arguments in favor of sport
hunting are developed. The ethical question about destroying something good (the life
of an animal) solely for a human's personal satisfaction is addressed, & the concept of
moral rights is reviewed. It is argued that, in the matter of rights, humans as moral
agents have natural rights to life, freedom from harm, & freedom from nonconsensual
interference; animals do not. In the matter of proportionality, there is sufficient
balance of goods & evils in the context of sport hunting to make it a natural good. A hunter
is not taking pleasure (a natural good) in the killing of an animal (a neutral act) for the
death itself (a natural evil), but for the pleasure of exercising his skills (a natural
good). From an ecological viewpoint, any action harming the ecosystem harms humans, so
that hunters are rightfully limited in hunting by the condition of the animal species &
its correlat ive biological neighbors. It is also noted that since hunters, like nonhuman predators, are generally opportunistic rather than selective in hunting, they do not
damage the genetic quality of the herds. In general, hunting contributes to the balance in the ecosystem & is thus a moral good from this angle also. M. Pflum
AN: 90X0111
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