Catastrophe Ethics

How to Be Good in a World Gone Bad

Travis Rieder (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2024
Duckworth (Verlag)
978-0-7156-5551-1 (ISBN)

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Philosopher Travis Rieder outlines a new ethics for the age of humanmade catastrophe. We are all asking, in a hyperglobalised world hurtling towards environmental destruction: how do we determine the right actions? Do our individual efforts to avoid plastic or air travel, or to drive electric, make any real difference?

We urgently need to expand our ethical toolkit. The mental tools most of us rely on to ‘do the right thing’ just don’t work when it comes to reasoning about large collective problems. From the small stuff like single-use plastics to major decisions like whether to have children, Rieder defines exactly how we can change our thinking and lead a decent, meaningful life in a scary, complicated world.

Travis Rieder is an associate research professor at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and an expert in climate change ethics. His first book In Pain was named an NPR Best Book of 2019 and his TED Talk on the same topic has been viewed 2.8 million times. He has written for Psychology Today and the New York Times. Catastrophe Ethics is his second book.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2024
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7156-5551-5 / 0715655515
ISBN-13	978-0-7156-5551-1 / 9780715655511
Zustand	Neuware