Living-With Wisdom: Permaculture and Symbiotic Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780367406035 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 204 str.

Alexander Badman-King

Opis

This book explores the way in which ancient Greek models of philosophy as an attempt to live ‘the good life’ can be realised through permaculture, showing how practices of sustainable farming or ethical gardening can provide us with the best opportunity to acquire ‘moral knowledge’ through close relationships with other living beings.

Spis treści

1. Moral knowledge (‘wisdom’) as the purpose of philosophy and life  PART I: Philosophy  2. Plato and Aristotle on the nature of wisdom  3. Moderate realism as the epistemic and metaethical basis of wisdom  4. An amalgamation of philosophy and anthropology as the best method for gaining wisdom  5. The necessity of aesthetics and evaluation, and the pre-eminence of narrative in ‘living-with’  PART II: Life  6. Purposiveness amongst living things as a focus of wisdom and the usefulness of fringe cases for acquiring wisdom  7. The inevitability of doing harm, the importance of feeling bad and the central role of honesty and courage  8. An effort to outline an attitude of steady attention, poignancy and good humour in the face of death, as constitutive of wisdom

O autorze

Alexander Badman-King is an associate lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter, UK, where he is also a member of the Exeter Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics working group.