Exemplarist Environmental Ethics
This article argues that environmental ethics can deemphasize environmental problem-solving in preference for a more exemplarist mode. This mode will renarrate what we admire in those we have long admired, in order to make them resonate with contemporary ethical needs. First, I outline a method prob...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2019]
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Journal of religious ethics
Ano: 2019, Volume: 47, Número: 3, Páginas: 525-550 |
| (Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
Ética ambiental
/ Exemplo
/ Religião
/ Ética
/ Atividade política
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| Classificações IxTheo: | AB Filosofia da religião NCB Ética individual NCD Ética política NCG Ética ecológica ; ética da criação |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Ethnography
B Environmental Ethics B Francis of Asissi B Henry David Thoreau B exemplarist ethics B Method B Virtue Ethics |
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| Resumo: | This article argues that environmental ethics can deemphasize environmental problem-solving in preference for a more exemplarist mode. This mode will renarrate what we admire in those we have long admired, in order to make them resonate with contemporary ethical needs. First, I outline a method problem that arose for me in ethnographic fieldwork, a problem that I call, far too reductively, "solution thinking." Second, I relate that method problem to movements against "quandary ethics" in ethical theory more broadly. Third, I discuss some interpretive work I am engaged in about Henry David Thoreau and how it bears on the methodological issues my fieldwork raised. I argue that some of the most important icons of right relation to environment, especially Francis of Assisi and Thoreau, should be envisioned as far more politically invested than they usually are. They demonstrate to scholars of religious ethics that an exemplarist ethic focused on character need not neglect politics. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jore.12275 |