Emersonian Virtues of the Anthropocene Faith, Hope, and Love
The natural sciences and religion are two of the primary modern social practices that, for better and worse, shape our relationship to nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson helps us to think about their relation to one another and the virtues needed for the perfection of each. His insights about virtue and th...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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[2018]
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Zygon
Jahr: 2018, Band: 53, Heft: 4, Seiten: 971-991 |
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
/ Naturwissenschaften
/ Moralität
/ Anthropozän
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| IxTheo Notationen: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus NCB Individualethik NCJ Wissenschaftsethik |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Nature
B Ethics B Spirituality B Grace B theology and science B Ralph Waldo Emerson B Religion B theology of nature B Virtue B Faith |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The natural sciences and religion are two of the primary modern social practices that, for better and worse, shape our relationship to nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson helps us to think about their relation to one another and the virtues needed for the perfection of each. His insights about virtue and the religious sentiment shed light on how we moderns might make a home of a world indelibly marked by science, technology, and anthropogenic change. In addition to the quintessentially Emersonian virtue of self-trust, the virtues of faith, hope, and love are vital for this home-making endeavor. Emerson, thus, prefigures what prominent environmental ethicists have described as a turn to virtue in climate ethics, as well as what some see as a return to religious communities, values, and ideals, as the way forward. By guiding readers through Emerson's early work Nature and his late essay Worship, this article provides an account of these three traditionally theological Emersonian virtues of the Anthropocene. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12469 |
