Virtues for the Anthropocene

Paola, Marcello Di

doi:10.3197/096327114x13947900181310

Cited by 21 publications

(8 citation statements)

References 59 publications

(36 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…This is an argument I have made elsewhere with respect to climate change (Hulme ) and one that is echoed in other recent work. Di Paola (), for example, draws attention to the virtues of mindfulness and cheerfulness in the Anthropocene, for him given expression through the cultivation of “urban gardens,” while Stirling () calls for mutual relations of “care” over the domineering rhetoric of “control.”…”

Section: Using Politics To Move Forwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Still) Disagreeing About Climate Change: Which Way Forward?

Hulme¹

2015

Zygon

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Why does climate change continue to be a forceful idea which divides people? What does this tell us about science, about culture, and about the future? Despite disagreement, how might the idea of climate change nevertheless be used creatively? In this essay I develop my investigation of these questions using four lines of argument. First, the future risks associated with human‐caused climate change are severely underdetermined by science. Scientific predictions of future climates are poorly constrained; even more so the consequences of such climates for evolving human socio‐technological and natural ecosystems. Second, I argue that to act politically in the world, people have to pass judgments on the facts of science; facts do not speak for themselves. Third, because these judgments are different, the strategic goals of policy interventions developed in response to risks associated with future climate change are inevitably multiple and conflicting. Finally, reconciling and achieving diverse goals requires political contestation. “Moving forward” on climate change then becomes a task of investing in the discursive and procedural preconditions for an agonistic politics to work constructively, to enable ways of implementing policies when people disagree.

show abstract

Section: Using Politics To Move Forwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Still) Disagreeing About Climate Change: Which Way Forward?

Hulme¹

2015

Zygon

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The opposite of virtue—vice—threatens the flourishing of the Earth community, including human beings, by way of direct consequences, such as extreme climate events, and indirect ones, such as climate anxiety 37. Much of our inimical behaviour towards the planet undeniably stems from a habitual absence of mind that reinforces unsustainable social institutions, thus creating a vicious circle that pushes ecosystems to their limits 38. Unlike humans, non-human animals are neither virtuous nor vicious in the same manner as humans are, but other species can still flourish in some fitting way based on their biological characteristics and those of their natural habitats.…”

Section: Virtue Jurisprudence For Planetary Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Harnessing legal structures of virtue for planetary health

2023

J Med Ethics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Humans and other species depend on the planet’s well-being to survive and flourish. The health of the planet and its ecosystems is under threat from anthropogenic climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss. The promotion of planetary health against entrenched degradation of nature urgently requires ethical guidance. Using an ecocentric virtue jurisprudence approach, this article argues that the highest end of safeguarding planetary health is to secure the flourishing of the Earth community, of which the flourishing of humanity is but one component. The article demonstrates how law, despite its historic role in facilitating our present planetary crisis, has an untapped potential to redeem itself by promoting planetary flourishing through the creation of conditions conducive to the practice of moral virtues, which can help meet the challenges of the Anthropocene. Once given an ecocentric interpretation, the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, courage and moderation, as well as their subvirtues, can justify or produce legal structures that address everything from the human right to a healthy environment to the rights of nature.

show abstract

“…This is perhaps not surprising, considering that environmental thought has been characterised by a persistent challenge to anthropocentrism, whilst traditional virtue ethics focuses on cultivating virtuous character traits for personal and social flourishing within human communities. However, environmental philosophers have come to see the cultivation of environmental virtues as a crucial element of our overall understanding of environmental values and today environmental virtue ethics is a flourishing field (Clowney, 2014;Di Paola, 2015;Lenzi, 2017). Alongside the other 'big theories' it has been used to analyse and assess the motivations of contemporary environmental movements.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Plurality, Engagement, Openness

Greaves¹,

Dandy²

2022

Environmental Values

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

As incoming Editor and Deputy Editor we describe our impression of the current situation that those committed to understanding and upholding environmental values find themselves in. We consider some of the factors that make enviornmental concern difficult to maintain, including conditions that affect us as academics, publishers, global citizens and activists. We describe some of the emerging trends that have appeared in Environmental Values in recent years, in philosophy, ecological economics, critical social science and widening interdisciplinarity in the environmental humanities. We highlight the journal's commitment to engaged, plural and open investigation of environmental values and consider what we might expect and hope for in the coming years.

show abstract

Virtues for the Anthropocene

Cited by 21 publications

References 59 publications

(Still) Disagreeing About Climate Change: Which Way Forward?

(Still) Disagreeing About Climate Change: Which Way Forward?

Harnessing legal structures of virtue for planetary health

Plurality, Engagement, Openness

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About