Fittingness and Environmental Ethics: Philosophical, Theological and Applied Perspectives (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies)

Synopsis

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

Copyright:

2023

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Publisher Quality

Book Size:

220 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000844887

Related ISBNs:

9781003261391, 9781032218533, 9781032145839

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

02/24/23

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Michael S. Northcott and Steven C. van den Heuvel

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Michael S. Northcott

Edited by:

Steven C. Heuvel