"The Fierce Urgency of Now": The Ecological Legacy of King's Social Ethics
This essay offers a constructive, ecological extension of Martin Luther King Jr.'s social ethics using a phrase from Henry David Thoreau's classic, Walden, that King often used: improved means to an unimproved end. King argued that this Thoreauvian theme summarized modern life; in part...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
[2016]
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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 36, Issue: 2, Pages: 159-172 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics TJ Modern history VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | This essay offers a constructive, ecological extension of Martin Luther King Jr.'s social ethics using a phrase from Henry David Thoreau's classic, Walden, that King often used: improved means to an unimproved end. King argued that this Thoreauvian theme summarized modern life; in particular, he employed this idea to address the systemic, interconnected forces of racism, materialism, and militarism. This essay argues that King's work is fertile ground for the cultivation of an ecological ethic capable of resisting the logic of commodification of the West. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-2176 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/sce.2016.0036 |