Suvielise Nurmi

Relational Agency and Environmental Ethics (eBook, PDF)

A Journey beyond Humanism as We Know It

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Why does ethics only weakly contribute to the most crucial problems of the current world? Relational Agency and Environmental Ethics: A Journey Beyond Humanism as We Know It explores how the concept of moral agency embedded in modern humanist ethics, in its reliance on environmentally harmful and scientifically implausible presuppositions, prevents ethics from efficiently supporting a sustainability transition. The modernist individualist notion of agency includes conceptual dichotomies between moral agency and human nature, mind and body, reason and emotion, and knowledge and will, yet it should be revised without dismissing responsibility, normativity, and a shared ground for critical assessment. Suvielise Nurmi proposes an agential shift resting on a relational concept of agency, combining ecofeminist and evolutionary criticisms of modernism together with various interdisciplinary discussions involving philosophy of mind, cognitive science, anthropology, social ontology, and developmental biology and psychology. This book argues that the relational shift can resolve the dilemma and bring environmental relationships to the core of ethical discourse: there is no ethics distinct from environmental ethics. Environmental responsibilities can be justified as responsibilities for one's relationally considered agency.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978794245
• Artikelnr.: 74396926

Autorenporträt

Suvielise Nurmi is postdoc researcher in ethics and environmental philosophy at the University of Helsinki.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Moral Agency in Environmental Ethics
Chapter 1: Exceptional Humanism and Its Extensional Counterparts in
Environmental Ethics
Chapter 2: Moral Agency in Evolutionary Environmental Ethics: A Naturalist
Alternative to Dichotomized Agency
Chapter 3: Moral Agency in Feminist Environmental Ethics: A Constrained
Constructivist Approach
Chapter 4: Relational Agendas
Part II: Relational Moral Agency
Chapter 5: Being Relational
Chapter 6: Knowing Relationally
Chapter 7: Acting Relationally
Part III: Shifts in Ethical Theories: Beyond Naturalism and Constructivism
Chapter 8: Shifted Naturalisms
Chapter 9: Constructivism Chastened by the Natural Relationships of Agency
Part IV: Ethics for Relational Agents
Chapter 10: Relational Foundations for Environmental Ethics
Chapter 11: Responsibilities for Relational Agency