Global Ethics on Climate Change: The Planetary Crisis and Philosophical Alternatives

ISBN-13: 9781138850460 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 132 str.

Martin Schonfeld

Opis

Climate change is the greatest challenge civilization has ever faced. This collection explores fundamental alternatives, for the sake of civil evolution.

Spis treści

1. Global Ethics on Climate Change Martin Schönfeld  2. Climate, imagination, Kant, and situational awareness  Michael Thompson  3. Moral progress and Canada’s climate failure  Byron Williston  4. Climate change and philosophy in Latin America  Ernesto O. Hernández  5. Watsuji Tetsuro, Fudo, and climate change  Bruce B. Janz  6. Climate change and the ecological intelligence of Confucius  Shih-yu Kuo  7. A Daoist response to climate change  Chen Xia and Martin Schönfeld  8. Justice, negative GHIs, and the consumption of farmed animal products  Jan Deckers  9. Climate change, the end of ‘development,’ and African alternatives  Sirrku Hellsten and Fred Ochieng-Odhiambo  10. Ancestral Climate Wisdom: Return to a Thoughtful Etiquette  Timothy Leduc, York University, Canada

O autorze

Martin Schönfeld is a former Kant scholar and historian of the European Enlightenment. He teaches at the University of South Florida and conducts philosophy workshops in Taiwan. He organized the first international philosophy conference on climate (2006) and edits the Climate Philosophy Newsletter. He writes on climate, the American Disenlightenment, and civil evolution.