Eco-Republic (eBook)

What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living

Melissa Lane (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3835-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Ancient lessons for sustainable citizenshipAn ecologically sustainable society cannot be achieved without citizens who possess the virtues and values that will foster it, and who believe that individual actions can indeed make a difference. Eco-Republic draws on ancient Greek thought-and Plato's Republic in particular-to put forward a new vision of citizenship that can make such a society a reality. Melissa Lane develops a model of a society whose health and sustainability depend on all its citizens recognizing a shared standard of value and shaping their personal goals and habits accordingly. Bringing together the moral and political ideas of the ancients with the latest social and psychological theory, Lane illuminates the individual's vital role in social change, and articulates new ways of understanding what is harmful and what is valuable, what is a benefit and what is a cost, and what the relationship between public and private well-being ought to be.Eco-Republic reveals why we must rethink our political imagination if we are to meet the challenges of climate change and other urgent environmental concerns. Offering a unique reflection on the ethics and politics of sustainability, the book goes beyond standard approaches to virtue ethics in philosophy and current debates about happiness in economics and psychology. Eco-Republic explains why health is a better standard than happiness for capturing the important links between individual action and social good, and diagnoses the reasons why the ancient concept of virtue has been sorely neglected yet is more relevant today than ever.

Autor

Melissa Lane is professor of politics at Princeton University. She is the author of Method and Politics in Plato's "Statesman" and Plato's Progeny: How Plato and Socrates Still Captivate the Modern Mind.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.10.2011
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: Adeimantus • Advertising • Advocacy • Akrasia • allegory of the cave • Analogy • Aristotelianism • Calculation • Callicles • Cambridge University Press • Capitalism • cardinal virtues • Certainty • climate change • communism • Consequentialism • Consideration • Convenience • Cost–benefit analysis • Criticism • crito • Danielle Allen • Democracy • Deontological Ethics • Dictatorship • Discipline • Economics • Environmentalist • ethics • Ethos • Friedrich Nietzsche • George Kateb • glaucon • Greenhouse Gas • Hannah Arendt • Harm Principle • Hedonism • Illustration • Immanuel Kant • Infrastructure • Institution • intergovernmental panel on climate change • John Stuart Mill • Jonathon Porritt • just society • liberal democracy • Liberalism • Modernity • Morality • of education • Oligarchy • On Liberty • Our Common Future • Oxford University Press • phenomenon • Philip Pettit • Philosopher • Philosophy • Plato • Platonism • Pleonexia • Political Philosophy • Politician • Politics • Pricing • Principle • Protagoras • Psychology • Public Policy • Quentin Skinner • reflections on the revolution in france • Regulation • renewable energy • Republic (Plato) • Requirement • ring of gyges • Ruler • Science • SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS • Scientist • Self-control • Self-Interest • Slavery • Sophist • Status Quo Bias • Supply (economics) • sustainability • Tax • Technology • theory • The Philosopher • Think Tank • Thought • Totalitarianism • Utilitarianism • Value (ethics) • Virtue Ethics • Voting • Wealth • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3835-5 / 1400838355
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3835-6 / 9781400838356