Virtues of Sustainability
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With growing awareness of global climate change and its devastating impacts, there is significant interest in finding new, sustainable ways of life. This volume brings together important new essays by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine the character traits and virtues needed to successfully achieve such flourishing, sustainable lives--the virtues of sustainability. Our pursuit of sustainability will challenge our values and character, from rethinking consumption and our relationship to nature, to being resilient in the face of environmental disaster. This volume provides…mehr

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With growing awareness of global climate change and its devastating impacts, there is significant interest in finding new, sustainable ways of life. This volume brings together important new essays by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine the character traits and virtues needed to successfully achieve such flourishing, sustainable lives--the virtues of sustainability. Our pursuit of sustainability will challenge our values and character, from rethinking consumption and our relationship to nature, to being resilient in the face of environmental disaster. This volume provides readers with a rich understanding of the nature and importance of these virtues, and practical guidance on how they can be developed and applied.
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Autorenporträt
Jason Kawall is the Carl Benton Straub '58 Endowed Chair in Culture and the Environment, and Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at Colgate University. His research focuses on virtue ethics and epistemology, with a particular emphasis on their application to environmental and sustainability issues. He has published extensively in these and related areas, with his work appearing in such journals as American Philosophical Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Environmental Ethics, Ethics, Policy & Environment, and Philosophical Studies, and in several edited collections.