Fittingness and Environmental Ethics

Philosophical, Theological and Applied Perspectives

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Av Michael S. Northcott, Steven C. van den Heuvel, Steven C. Van Den Heuvel

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This volume focuses on ‘fittingness’ as an ethical-aesthetical idea, and in particular examines how the concept is beneficial for environmental ethics. It brings together an innovative set of contributions to argue that fittingness is a significant but under-investigated facet of human ethical deliberation with both ethical and aesthetic dimensions. In widely diverse matters – from architecture to table manners – individuals and communities make decisions based on ‘fittingness’, also expressed in related terms, such as appropriateness, prudence, temperance, and mutuality. In the realm of environmental ethics, fittingness denotes a relation between conscious embodied persons and their habitats and is of relevance to judgements about how humans shape, and take up with, the non-human environment, and hence to ethical decisions about the development and use of the environment and non-human creatures. As such, fittingness can be of great benefit in reframing human relationships to the non-human, stimulating a way of living in the world that is fitting to the preservation of its fruitfulness, goodness, beauty, and truth.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-08-26
Mått156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
Antal sidor220
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032218533

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Michael S. Northcott is Professor Emeritus of Ethics at the University of Edinburgh and Guest Professor at the Indonesian Consortium of Religious Studies at Universitas Gadjah Mada Graduate School in Yogyakarta (Indonesia). He is also Guest Professor of Systematic Theology at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven (Belgium).Steven C. van den Heuvel is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven (Belgium).

List of FiguresList of Contribuotrs Acknowledgements IntroductionMichael S. Northcott and Steven C. van den HeuvelPart I Metaphysics and Aesthetics1 Fittingness and Other-Regarding Attitudes in Environmental AestheticsEmily Brady2 Commonage Consciousness and Fitting in with the Earth: John Moriarty and Deep EcologyNora Ward3 On the Ethics and Metaphysics of Fittingness, Affordances and ProvidenceMichael Bauwens4 Fittingness and Environmental Ethics: Perspectives from Chinese Religion and PhilosophyJunSoo ParkPart II Theological Perspectives on Fittingness5 The Ontological Turn, Religious Tradition, and Human Cosmological FittingnessMichael S. Northcott6 Fittingness and the Spiritual-Religious Nature of EnvironmentalismJohan de Tavernier7 Fittingness as Attunement? Being Ecological with Timothy Morton and Hans Urs von BalthasarYves de Maeseneer8 Anselm on Fittingness: Various Concepts of Fittingness in the Cur Deus homoRostislav TkachenkoPart III Practical Applications9 Fittingness as a Dynamic of Social Interaction: Implications for Embedding Ecological Concerns in Community Life and PracticeJack Barentsen10 When ‘Fitting in’ means to ‘Care’: Proposing a Form-of-Life for Environmental CareEmilio di Somma11 Representation as Isolation: The Unfittingness of WasteGregory Jensen12 The Challenge and Promise of Queer Ecology for Understanding ‘Fittingness’: A Theological EngagementSteven C. van den HeuvelIndex