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Item Open Access An interview with Holmes Rolston III - Chinese(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Libenson, Sam, interviewer; Wong, Justin, interviewer; Ma, Chenghui, translatorHolmes Rolston is interviewed by Sam Libenson and Justin Wong. Environmental ethics is about appropriate caring and respect for wonderland Earth and its inhabitants, each flourishing according to its own nature. Earth is a marvelously distinct planet with the richness of life that has evolved here ‒ a wonderland. Life contains information, encoded in genes, about how to construct and maintain an ongoing form of life. This is more marvelous than elsewhere in the universe so far as we know. Part of the meaning of life can be found in science, but not the deeper meanings in religion. We ought to use technology save half-Earth.Item Open Access A philosopher gone wild: CSU professor makes peace between God and science — and wins the world's most generous prize(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2003-04) Campbell, Greg, interviewer and author; Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, intervieweeDr. Holmes Rolston is interviewed by Greg Campbell in April 2003. Dr. Holmes Rolston will receive the Templeton Prize, valued at more than $1 million, on May 7 in London's Buckingham Palace from Prince Philip. He will use the money to endow a chair in his name at his alma mater, Davidson College in North Carolina, in the fields of science and religion. His studies in philosophy of science, in evolutionary and ecosystem science, and as an accomplished biologist have made Rolston the leading voice for protecting biodiversity — not only out of respect for nature, but also due to religious obligation. He already has carved on his future tombstone this epitaph: "Philosopher Gone Wild." That's his life well-lived.Item Open Access An interview with Holmes Rolston III - English(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Libenson, Sam, interviewer; Wong, Justin, interviewerHolmes Rolston is interviewed by Sam Libenson and Justin Wong. Environmental ethics is about appropriate caring and respect for wonderland Earth and its inhabitants, each flourishing according to its own nature. Earth is a marvelously distinct planet with the richness of life that has evolved here ‒ a wonderland. Life contains information, encoded in genes, about how to construct and maintain an ongoing form of life. This is more marvelous than elsewhere in the universe so far as we know. Part of the meaning of life can be found in science, but not the deeper meanings in religion. We ought to use technology save half-Earth.Item Open Access Critical notice - Holmes Rolston III(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, authorCritical notice of citations of Rolston's published materials in environmental ethics and in science and religion.Item Open Access Rolston, Holmes: who's who in America(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2019) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Marquis Who's Who, publisherItem Open Access Samtal med den värdefulla naturen: ett studium av miljöetiken hos Knud Løgstrup, Holmes Rolston III och Hans Jonas(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1999) Kvassman, Staffan, author; Staffan Kvassman, publisherThis is the English summary section from the book written by Staffan Kvassman about Holmes Rolston (and two others). The book was originally his Swedish doctoral dissertation published in 1999.Item Open Access 温柔的使命: 生態, 信仰, 生活的結合(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016) Lin, Yiren, author; Chen, Tzu-Mei, author; Taiwan Ecological Stewardship Association, publisherArticle 1: In his sermon preached June 5, 2016, at the Ho-Ping Church in Taipei, Rolston emphasized that, like ancient Israel, all peoples today reside on lands with promise, promised lands. Taiwan was long known as Formosa, the beautiful island. Americans sing "America, the Beautiful." Earth is a planet with great promise; such planets are rare in the universe. The main theme of ecological ethics is homing. We are all "Earth gardeners" who have a divine destiny to "care for the Earth," our home planet.Item Open Access Holmes Rolston III: interview by Theo Horesh(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2015) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Horesh, Theo, author; Bauu Press, publisherRolston on how we might more wisely approach the "perfect moral storm" of climate change. Ethicists will watch the worldview, the interpretation, the value choices underlying economic analyses. We are at a hinge point in human and Earth history. We have enormous amounts of power but have not learned to control our appetites. How do we value the extinctions of species we are causing? How do we value diversity on our wonderland planet? What are the dangers of entering an Anthropocene Epoch? We can think of Earth as a promised land, a gift. Rolston has seen radical changes in human attitudes and behaviors in his lifetime. He challenges the millennial generation to press for more caring for Earth.Item Open Access Rolston bio-profile HD slideshow(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2017) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, filmmakerItem Open Access I married a "thinker"(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1995-2005) Rolston, Jane, authorRecollections of Holmes Rolston's wife Jane over the decades of her life married to a philosophical "thinker."Item Open Access U.S. Congressional Record - Rolston congratulated(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2003-04-30) McInnis, Scott, author; U.S. G.P.O., publisherItem Open Access A philosopher gone wild (Karnos)(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1993) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Oxford University Press, publisherRolston found that, loving wisdom, he had to quarrel with Socrates, taking a natural turn. Indeed he found that he had to quarrel with the three disciplines he most loved: science, philosophy, and theology. None of them appropriately valued nature, which he had learned to love from the cradle in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and continuing as he became in his early adult years a naturalist in the Southern Appalachians. He became increasingly convinced of the intrinsic values in nature and equally dismayed by environmental degradation there. That led him to become a founder of environmental ethics. No one can really become a philosopher, loving wisdom, without caring for these sources in which we live, move, and have our being, the community of life on Earth.Item Open Access Philosopher gone wild: Rolston bio-photo-media 2020(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker and filmmakerHolmes Rolston's biography: Shenandoah Valley childhood. Education. Years in Southwest Virginia. Grand Canyon River run. Colorado State University, classroom. Interview, University of Georgia. Family and outdoors. Rolston-Rollin debate, 1989. Wild Rockies, including wolves. Travels, Africa, Asia including Nepal, and Antarctica. Science and Religion. Oakland University, Michigan, Gifford Lectures, Edinburgh, 1997-1998. Wilderness. Templeton Prize in Buckingham Palace, 2003. In the woods. Endowed Rolston Chairs, Davidson College, CSU. The Pasqueflower, 2008.Item Open Access Rolston, Holmes, III, 1932- (Cafaro)(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2009) Cafaro, Philip, author; Gale, publisherRolston's forty year career at Colorado State University has been devoted to analyzing and advocating value in nature, especially the intrinsic value of nature. Such value generates an obligation to respect nature and to conserve it. Rolston further examines how this translates into environmental policy regarding endangered species, wilderness conservation, sustainable development, and corporate responsibility. In result, Rolston has become "the father of environmental ethics." He gave the Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, was awarded the Templeton Prize in Religion, and has lectured on seven continents.Item Open Access Booknotes, January 2010(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2010) O'Hear, Anthony, author; Royal Institute of Philosophy, publisherThe author reviews Christopher J. Preston's book Saving Creation, which charts the intellectual and personal odyssey of Holmes Rolston III.Item Open Access Saving creation: nature and faith in the life of Holmes Rolston III (review)(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2010-10) Bouma-Prediger, Steven, author; Union Presbyterian Seminary, publisherPreston engagingly tells the story of Rolston, from his childhood in the Shenandoah Mountains, to his long and distinguished career as a philosopher at Colorado State University. As the story of a human life, it is an interesting read, but along the way, Preston also adroitly interweaves the story of the rise and development of environmental ethics as an academic discipline. This is an impressive work overall. If you are interested in natural science and Christian theology, this is a book for you. If you are interested in environmental ethics, this is a book for you. Or, if you are just interested in a fascinating human story, well told, this is a book for you.Item Open Access Rolston publications by year(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2019) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, authorItem Open Access Holmes Rolston, III - CSU history(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007) Hansen, James E., 1938-, author; Colorado State University, publisherRolston has been important in Colorado State University's strategic planning for enhanced student learning. He was the first University Distinguished Professor to be named outside the natural sciences. He has a scholarly reputation comparable to CSU's most successful researchers and is as knowledgeable about science generally as are most such specialists. Rolston's classes have been characterized both by rigorous standards and by a welcoming atmosphere conducive to the thoughtful exchange of ideas.Item Open Access Holmes Rolston III 1932- / by Jack Weir (Japanese)(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2004) Weir, Jack, author; Jiyuji, Sudou, author; Misuzu Shobo, publisherHolmes Rolston is widely recognized as the "father of environmental ethics" as an academic discipline. More so than any other, he has shaped the essential nature, scope and issues of the discipline. The following six principles are basic to his work: 1. The Homologous Principle: Follow Nature; 2. The Value-Capture Principle; 3. The Organic Principle: Respect for Life; 4. The Species Principle: Preserve 'Forms' of Life; 5. The Ecosystemic Principle; 6. The Three 'Environments' Principle: Urban, Rural and Wilderness (or, the Nature-Culture Principle).Item Open Access Rolston, Holmes (Britannica)(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2004) Turner, Darrell J., author; Encyclopedia Britannica, publisherThe "father of environmental ethics" has spent his life in what he calls a lover's quarrel with science and religion. "I had to fight both theology and science to love nature," Rolston said when he was named the recipient of the 2003 Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities. Rolston published the first article in a major philosophical journal to challenge the idea that nature is value-free and that all values stem from a human perspective.