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Emplotting Virtue

A Narrative Approach to Environmental Virtue Ethics

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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A rich hermeneutic account of the way virtue is understood and developed.Despite its ancient roots, virtue ethics has only recently been fully appreciated as a resource for environmental philosophy. Other approaches dominated by utilitarian and duty-based appeals for sacrifice and restraint have had little success in changing behavior, even to the extent that ecological concerns have been embraced. Our actions often do not align with our beliefs. Fundamental to virtue ethics is an acknowledgment that neither good ethical rules nor good intentions are effective absent the character required to bring them to fulfillment. Brian Treanor builds on recent work on virtue ethics in environmental philosophy, finding an important grounding in the narrative theory of philosophers like Paul Ricoeur and Richard Kearney. Character and ethical formation, Treanor argues, are intimately tied to our relationship with the narratives through which we view the human place in the natural world. By reframing environmental questions in terms of individual, social, and environmental narratives about flourishing, Emplotting Virtue offers a powerful vision of how we might remake our character so as to live more happily, more sustainably, and more virtuously in a diverse, beautiful, wondrous, and fragile world.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-06-01
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
Antal sidor258
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438451183

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Acknowledgments1. Just What Sort of Person Would Do That?IntroductionMoral Reasoning in Contemporary EthicsVirtue Ethics2. Virtue Ethics and Environmental Virtue EthicsVirtue and FlourishingThe Middle WayEmotion and ActionVirtue and the Environment3. Virtue: A Constellation of ConcernsVirtue and Living WellA Typology of Virtue: Individual, Social, and Environmental4. A Story of Simplicity: A Case Study in VirtueThe Scope of Simplicity: More Than Material RestraintThe Scope of Simplicity: A ‘Comprehensive’ VirtueThoreau’s Nature5. The Challenge of PostmodernityThe Imprecision and Variability of Virtue EthicsThe Postmodern ConditionPostmodern Temptations: Hamlet’s Indecision and Meursault’s Indifference"Postmodern" Virtue Ethics6. Narrative TheoryPaul Ricoeur and Narrative IdentityRichard Kearney and Narrative EpiphaniesMartha Nussbaum and the Judicious SpectatorWayne Booth and CoductionObjections: The Return of Relativism and the Excesses of Imagination7. Narrative Environmental Virtue EthicsIntroduction: Ethical Formation and ReformationEthical Education: Motivation and TransmissionEthical Experimentation: Discernment and UnderstandingEthical Formation: Application and Cultivation8. Epilogue: The "Narrative Goodness" ApproachThe Need for Virtue Ethics and the Need for NarrativeThree Important ClarificationsThe Literature of Life: A Life Worth Living, a Story Worth TellingNotesIndex