Melissa Lane

Eco-Republic

What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ancient lessons for sustainable citizenship An ecologically sustainable society cannot be achieved without citizens who possess the virtues and values that will foster it, and who believe that individual actions can indeed make a difference. Eco-Republic draws on ancient Greek thought-and Plato's Republic in particular-to put forward a new vision of citizenship that can make such a society a reality. Melissa Lane develops a model of a society whose health and sustainability depend on all its citizens recognizing a shared standard of value and shaping their personal goals and habits accordingly. Bringing together the moral and political ideas of the ancients with the latest social and psychological theory, Lane illuminates the individual's vital role in social change, and articulates new ways of understanding what is harmful and what is valuable, what is a benefit and what is a cost, and what the relationship between public and private well-being ought to be. Eco-Republic reveals why we must rethink our political imagination if we are to meet the challenges of climate change and other urgent environmental concerns. Offering a unique reflection on the ethics and politics of sustainability, the book goes beyond standard approaches to virtue ethics in philosophy and current debates about happiness in economics and psychology. Eco-Republic explains why health is a better standard than happiness for capturing the important links between individual action and social good, and diagnoses the reasons why the ancient concept of virtue has been sorely neglected yet is more relevant today than ever.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780691162201
• ISBN-10: 0691162204
• Artikelnr.: 40052445

Autorenporträt

Melissa Lane is the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics and a faculty member of the Program in Classical Philosophy at Princeton University. She is also the 50th Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College. Her books include The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter (Princeton) and Method and Politics in Plato's "Statesman."

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Inertia as Failure of the Political Imagination - From Greed to Glory: Ancient to Modern Ethics - and Back Again? - Underpinning Inertia: The Idea of Negligibility - Meet Plato's Republic - The City and the Soul - The Idea of the Good - Initiative and Individuals: A (Partly) Platonic Political Project.