Virtue Ethics and the Environment

ISBN-13: 9789400798489 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 206 str.

Philip Cafaro; Ronald Sandler

Opis

Whatever its origins, EVE (Environmental Virtue Ethics) now appears to be a vital part of the environmental philosophy landscape. Whether you look to it for an alternative to other theoretical approaches to environmental ethics, or as a complement to them, there are a number of ways EVE clarifies our environmental choices and responsibilities. This is an exciting collection that addresses compelling issues, not only in EVE, but in environmental philosophy more broadly. In addition to their individual merits, these articles collectively demonstrate the value of EVE to environmental philosophy and the value of environmental philosophy in helping create sustainable societies and preserve nature. Recent movement on negotiating a strong successor to the Kyoto Treaty gives some hope that the world is waking up to the moral imperative to protect the Earth. But whether people will be willing to ratchet down our economic demands and reshape our economies to reflect this hoped-for moral progress remains to be seen. Previously published in the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Volume 23 (1-2), 2010

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"This anthology provides another welcome addition to the growing body of work that makes up the theoretical structures and practical applications of EVE. ... the anthology addresses the connection between the personal and the public aspects of living an environmentally good life and its discussion of current challenges to EVE. It is a welcome addition to anyone who is interested in developing further the features of EVE." (Geoffrey Frasz, Philosophy in Review, Vol. XXXII (4), 2012)

Spis treści

Editorial; Richard P. Haynes.- Environmental Virtue Ethics Special Issue: Introduction; Philip Cafaro.- Environmentalism and Public Virtue; Brian Treanor.- Forgivingness, Pessimism, and Environmental Citizenship; Kathryn J. Norlock.- Radical Hope for Living Well in a Warmer World; Allen Thompson.- Species Extinction and the Vice for Learning Virtue of Thoughtlessness: The Importance of Spiritual Exercises; Jeremy Bendik-Keymer.- The Virtue of Simplicity; Joshua Colt Gambrel and Philip Cafaro.- The Epistemic Demands of Environmental Virtue; Jason Kawall.- Hume's Knave and Nonanthropocentric Virtues; Paul Haught.- Heideggerian Environmental Virtue Ethics; Christine Swanton.- Ethical Theory and the Problem of Inconsequentialism: Why Environmental Ethicists Should be Virtue-Oriented Ethicists; Ronald Sandler.- Patriotism as an Environmental Virtue; Philip Cafaro.

Blurb

Environmental virtue ethics has become a vital part of the environmental philosophy landscape. Whether as an alternative or a complement to other theoretical approaches, environmental virtue ethics clarifies our environmental choices and responsibilities: • By deploying a multifaceted set of virtue and vice concepts, it provides a rich, nuanced descriptive and normative language for our relationships and interactions with nature. • By exploring the connection between human flourishing and nature, it complements duty-based and fear-based justifications for environmentally progressive behavior and policies. • By providing an ecologically informed account of human flourishing that is attentive to the full range of environmental values, it offers an alternative to consumption-oriented conceptions of human flourishing. • By specifying the kind of character conducive to environmental appreciation and personal restraint, it contributes to sketching the parameters of a genuinely sustainable society: one which doesn’t careen from one environmental problem to the next, seeking techno-fixes, but instead might really solve them. This is an exciting collection of essays that addresses compelling issues, not just in environmental virtue ethics, but in environmental philosophy and environmental practice as a whole.