Fittingness and Environmental Ethics

Philosophical, Theological and Applied Perspectives
Herausgegeben:Northcott, Michael S.; Heuvel, Steven C. van den

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Produktbeschreibung

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 tothe non-human, stimulating a way of living in the world that is fitting to the preservation of its fruitfulness, goodness, beauty, and truth.

Produktdetails

• Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9781032218533
• ISBN-10: 1032218533
• Artikelnr.: 71237891

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures

List of Contribuotrs

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Michael S. Northcott and Steven C. van den Heuvel

Part I Metaphysics and Aesthetics

1 Fittingness and Other-Regarding Attitudes in Environmental Aesthetics



Emily Brady



2 Commonage Consciousness and Fitting in with the Earth: John Moriarty and Deep Ecology



Nora Ward



3 On the Ethics and Metaphysics of Fittingness, Affordances and Providence



Michael Bauwens



4 Fittingness and Environmental Ethics: Perspectives from Chinese Religion and Philosophy



JunSoo Park



Part II Theological Perspectives on Fittingness

5 The Ontological Turn, Religious Tradition, and Human Cosmological Fittingness



Michael S. Northcott



6 Fittingness and the Spiritual-Religious Nature of Environmentalism



Johan de Tavernier



7 Fittingness as Attunement? Being Ecological with Timothy Morton and Hans Urs von Balthasar



Yves de Maeseneer



8 Anselm on Fittingness: Various Concepts of Fittingness in the Cur Deus homo



Rostislav Tkachenko



Part III Practical Applications

9 Fittingness as a Dynamic of Social Interaction: Implications for Embedding Ecological Concerns in Community Life and Practice



Jack Barentsen



10 When 'Fitting in' means to 'Care': Proposing a Form-of-Life for Environmental Care



Emilio di Somma



11 Representation as Isolation: The Unfittingness of Waste



Gregory Jensen



12 The Challenge and Promise of Queer Ecology for Understanding 'Fittingness': A Theological Engagement



Steven C. van den Heuvel

Index