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The Ethics of Nature and the Nature of Ethics

Edited by Gary Keogh - Contributions by Matthew C Eshleman; Scott M. James; Vladamir Jankovic; Isabel Kaeslin; Gary Keogh; Scott Midson; Parisa Moosavi; David Schultz; Robert Stern; Alison Stone; Maria Silvia Vaccarezza and Benjamin J. Wood

This volume explores questions which emerge from considering the relationship between nature and ethics through philosophical, theological, ethical and environmental lenses. It will examine the nature (understood as essence or character) of ethics itself and whether nature (understood as natural world) has embedded in it a moral code, as well as examining how particular ethical/theological worldviews influence our treatment of nature.

Is there an abstract, objective moral code in nature? If so, how do we gain access to this code of ethics? Is it only accessible through revelation, as in some religious traditions, or is this code of ethics more generally accessible to humanity? Indeed, does such an objective notion of ethics exist; could it be that ethics are a natural and subjective development? Is ethics a feature of nature, or have we invented it? There is, this volume might suggest, no consensus on these questions, as they at times divide and at times unite both the contributors to this volume and the bodies of scholarly work with which they engage.

As time moves forward, investigations into ethics in the context of the relationship between humanity and nature have become more complex, taking account of advances in the natural sciences and a growing appreciation of nature. How are we to understand our relationship with nature, and how does this have implications for our understandings of ethics? Are we now realising the repercussions of our failure to take seriously our experience of climate change?

This volume offers the reader a unique and underrepresented interdisciplinary perspective, from philosophers, theologians and environmentalists on the dynamic relationship between nature and ethics. It offers breadth in terms of the range of theoretical, cultural, philosophical and theological frameworks, but balances this with chapters providing an in-depth treatment of particular lenses, e.g. the work of Hegel, or the work of Gordon Kauffman. Through philosophical and theological investigation, these collected essays deepen and problematize the scientific and pragmatic discourses on nature, offering scholars solid resources to engage with some of the most pressing issues of our time in light of ongoing debates at many levels on dealing with climate change.
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Lexington Books
Pages: 168 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4985-4434-4 • Hardback • October 2017 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4985-4435-1 • eBook • October 2017 • $105.50 • (£82.00)
Subjects: Religion / Philosophy, Religion / Religion & Science, Philosophy / Ethics / Environmental Ethics, Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy / Religious
Gary Keogh is former lecturer in religions and theology at the University of Manchester.
INTRODUCTION:

The Cross-Pollinating Discourses of Nature and Ethics
Gary Keogh

SECTION ONE: THE NATURE OF ETHICS

  1. Aristotelian Virtue and the Freudian Challenge to Second Nature
Isabel Kaeslin

  1. The Moral Tragedy of the Biological Imperative: What Nietzsche can and cannot Teach us about the Evolution of Morality
Scott M. James and Matthew C. Eshleman

  1. On the Relevance of Evolutionary Biology to Ethical Naturalism
Parisa Moosavi

  1. A Gift or a Given? On the Role of Life in Løgstrup’s Ethics
Robert Stern

  1. Varieties of Naturalism: From Foot’s ‘Natural Goodness’ to Murdoch’s Non-Dogmatic Naturalism
Maria Silvia Vaccarezza

SECTION TWO: THE ETHICS OF NATURE

  1. Un/natural Creation(s): Posthumanism, Biotechnology, and Exploring the (Place in) Nature of Humans and Artificial Life
Scott Midson

  1. An Ethics of Fidelity: Luther, Hauerwas and Environmental Activism
Benjamin J. Wood

  1. The Ethics of Atmosfear: Communicating the Effects of Climate Change on Extreme Weather
Vladimir Jankovic & David M. Schultz

  1. Hegel, Nature, and Ethics
Alison Stone
This book is not just one more volume on the ethics of nature and the environment but is a profound philosophical and theological mining of selected classical and contemporary thinkers’ relevance for a truly transdisciplinary discourse about the entanglement of our images of nature and morality. Aristotle, Luther, Hegel, Nietzsche, Darwin, Freud and Murdoch meet each other and the reader in a demanding, rich, and thought-provoking dialogue on naturalism, artificiality, virtue, evolution and the painfully gripping question of how to cope with the “atmosfear” in times of anthropogenic climate and weather change.
— Sigurd Bergmann, , Norwegian University of Science and Technology


The Ethics of Nature and the Nature of Ethics

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Hardback
eBook
Summary
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  • This volume explores questions which emerge from considering the relationship between nature and ethics through philosophical, theological, ethical and environmental lenses. It will examine the nature (understood as essence or character) of ethics itself and whether nature (understood as natural world) has embedded in it a moral code, as well as examining how particular ethical/theological worldviews influence our treatment of nature.

    Is there an abstract, objective moral code in nature? If so, how do we gain access to this code of ethics? Is it only accessible through revelation, as in some religious traditions, or is this code of ethics more generally accessible to humanity? Indeed, does such an objective notion of ethics exist; could it be that ethics are a natural and subjective development? Is ethics a feature of nature, or have we invented it? There is, this volume might suggest, no consensus on these questions, as they at times divide and at times unite both the contributors to this volume and the bodies of scholarly work with which they engage.

    As time moves forward, investigations into ethics in the context of the relationship between humanity and nature have become more complex, taking account of advances in the natural sciences and a growing appreciation of nature. How are we to understand our relationship with nature, and how does this have implications for our understandings of ethics? Are we now realising the repercussions of our failure to take seriously our experience of climate change?

    This volume offers the reader a unique and underrepresented interdisciplinary perspective, from philosophers, theologians and environmentalists on the dynamic relationship between nature and ethics. It offers breadth in terms of the range of theoretical, cultural, philosophical and theological frameworks, but balances this with chapters providing an in-depth treatment of particular lenses, e.g. the work of Hegel, or the work of Gordon Kauffman. Through philosophical and theological investigation, these collected essays deepen and problematize the scientific and pragmatic discourses on nature, offering scholars solid resources to engage with some of the most pressing issues of our time in light of ongoing debates at many levels on dealing with climate change.
Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 168 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
    978-1-4985-4434-4 • Hardback • October 2017 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
    978-1-4985-4435-1 • eBook • October 2017 • $105.50 • (£82.00)
    Subjects: Religion / Philosophy, Religion / Religion & Science, Philosophy / Ethics / Environmental Ethics, Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy / Religious
Author
Author
  • Gary Keogh is former lecturer in religions and theology at the University of Manchester.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • INTRODUCTION:

    The Cross-Pollinating Discourses of Nature and Ethics
    Gary Keogh

    SECTION ONE: THE NATURE OF ETHICS

    1. Aristotelian Virtue and the Freudian Challenge to Second Nature
    Isabel Kaeslin

    1. The Moral Tragedy of the Biological Imperative: What Nietzsche can and cannot Teach us about the Evolution of Morality
    Scott M. James and Matthew C. Eshleman

    1. On the Relevance of Evolutionary Biology to Ethical Naturalism
    Parisa Moosavi

    1. A Gift or a Given? On the Role of Life in Løgstrup’s Ethics
    Robert Stern

    1. Varieties of Naturalism: From Foot’s ‘Natural Goodness’ to Murdoch’s Non-Dogmatic Naturalism
    Maria Silvia Vaccarezza

    SECTION TWO: THE ETHICS OF NATURE

    1. Un/natural Creation(s): Posthumanism, Biotechnology, and Exploring the (Place in) Nature of Humans and Artificial Life
    Scott Midson

    1. An Ethics of Fidelity: Luther, Hauerwas and Environmental Activism
    Benjamin J. Wood

    1. The Ethics of Atmosfear: Communicating the Effects of Climate Change on Extreme Weather
    Vladimir Jankovic & David M. Schultz

    1. Hegel, Nature, and Ethics
    Alison Stone
Reviews
Reviews
  • This book is not just one more volume on the ethics of nature and the environment but is a profound philosophical and theological mining of selected classical and contemporary thinkers’ relevance for a truly transdisciplinary discourse about the entanglement of our images of nature and morality. Aristotle, Luther, Hegel, Nietzsche, Darwin, Freud and Murdoch meet each other and the reader in a demanding, rich, and thought-provoking dialogue on naturalism, artificiality, virtue, evolution and the painfully gripping question of how to cope with the “atmosfear” in times of anthropogenic climate and weather change.
    — Sigurd Bergmann, , Norwegian University of Science and Technology


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