This is the first extensive study of ecological virtue ethics and the new rhetoric of environmentalists. Based on a wide-ranging survey of environmental literature, Louke van Wensveen offers an overview of current 'green' virtue language and proposes the basic elements of a matching ecological virtue theory, dubbed 'dirty virtues' by ecological philosophers. Environmental ethics is not exhausted by debates about the need to preserve rivers, our duties to bio-regions, and the intrinsic value of non-human nature; rather, eco-literature also contains a rich virtue language. Highlighting the integrity, diversity, internal tensions, dynamism, and visionary character of this ecological virtue language, the author shows both its historical roots and innovative features.Van Wensveen illustrates a widespread awareness of attitudes and habits that help or harm our relations with the non-human world. She includes a unique catalogue of 189 virtues and 174 vices that mark the vision and praxis of people committed to ecological flourishing. The second part presents carefully crafted criteria to help discern genuine virtue and vice in an ecological age. Her arguments are distinguished by a critical balance of moral sources, including Aristotelian virtue theory, Christian tradition, women's experiences, psychological theory, and metaphorical representations of non-human nature. Methodologically innovative and boldly interdisciplinary, "Dirty Virtues" will challenge and inspire virtue theorists, as well as environmental ethicists and theologians.
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"...a fascinating mixture of tradition and innovation." -- Environmental Ethics, Vol. 23, Summer 2001
"It brings a major focus in ethics--virtue--to ecological literature and vice versa. The result is a rich gathering of insights and a new agenda." -- Larry Rasmussen, author of EARTH COMMUNITY, EARTH ETHICS --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
"It brings a major focus in ethics--virtue--to ecological literature and vice versa. The result is a rich gathering of insights and a new agenda." -- Larry Rasmussen, author of EARTH COMMUNITY, EARTH ETHICS --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Louke van Wensveen is assistant professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
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THE WORD "VIRTUE" HAS an old-fashioned ring to it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thomas Berry, The Ecology of Freedom, Murray Bookchin, New York, The Dream of the Earth, Thomas Aquinas, Notre Dame, Summa Theologiae, Nicomachean Ethics, San Francisco, Fortress Press, Lynn White, Christian Ethics, Oxford University Press, Rosemary Ruether, Chaia Heller, Remaking Society, Stanley Hauerwas, Cambridge University Press, Janis Birkeland, Princeton University Press, Roman Catholic, Sierra Club Books, Benziger Brothers, Clarendon Press New!
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THE WORD "VIRTUE" HAS an old-fashioned ring to it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thomas Berry, The Ecology of Freedom, Murray Bookchin, New York, The Dream of the Earth, Thomas Aquinas, Notre Dame, Summa Theologiae, Nicomachean Ethics, San Francisco, Fortress Press, Lynn White, Christian Ethics, Oxford University Press, Rosemary Ruether, Chaia Heller, Remaking Society, Stanley Hauerwas, Cambridge University Press, Janis Birkeland, Princeton University Press, Roman Catholic, Sierra Club Books, Benziger Brothers, Clarendon Press New!
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- The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy by Murray Bookchin on 28 pages
- The Dream of the Earth by Thomas Berry on 16 pages
- Summa Theologiae: Volume 2, Existence and Nature of God: 1a. 2-11 (Summa Theologiae (Cambridge University Press)) by Thomas Aquinas on 12 pages
- Summa Theologiae by St.Thomas Aquinas on 12 pages
- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on 12 pages
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- Wendell Berry and the Agrarian Tradition: A Common Grace (American Political Thought (University of Kansas)) by Kimberly K. Smith in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics (Ashgate World Philosophies Series) (Ashgate World Philosophies Series) by Simon P. James on page 59, page 119, and Back Matter
- Thoreau's Living Ethics: Walden And the Pursuit of Virtue by Philip Cafaro in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Buddhism, Virtue And Environment (Ashgate World Philosophies Series) (Ashgate World Philosophies Series) by David Edward Cooper on page 48, and Back Matter
- Environmental Citizenship by Andrew Dobson on page 73
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