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OverviewWhy does ethics only weakly contribute to the most crucial problems of the current world? Relational Agency and Environmental Ethics: A Journey Beyond Humanism as We Know It explores how the concept of moral agency embedded in modern humanist ethics, in its reliance on environmentally harmful and scientifically implausible presuppositions, prevents ethics from efficiently supporting a sustainability transition. The modernist individualist notion of agency includes conceptual dichotomies between moral agency and human nature, mind and body, reason and emotion, and knowledge and will, yet it should be revised without dismissing responsibility, normativity, and a shared ground for critical assessment. Suvielise Nurmi proposes an agential shift resting on a relational concept of agency, combining ecofeminist and evolutionary criticisms of modernism together with various interdisciplinary discussions involving philosophy of mind, cognitive science, anthropology, social ontology, and developmental biology and psychology. This book argues that the relational shift can resolve the dilemma and bring environmental relationships to the core of ethical discourse: there is no ethics distinct from environmental ethics. Environmental responsibilities can be justified as responsibilities for one’s relationally considered agency. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Suvielise NurmiPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9781666904543ISBN 10: 1666904546 Pages: 316 Publication Date: 15 May 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Moral Agency in Environmental Ethics Chapter 1: Exceptional Humanism and Its Extensional Counterparts in Environmental Ethics Chapter 2: Moral Agency in Evolutionary Environmental Ethics: A Naturalist Alternative to Dichotomized Agency Chapter 3: Moral Agency in Feminist Environmental Ethics: A Constrained Constructivist Approach Chapter 4: Relational Agendas Part II: Relational Moral Agency Chapter 5: Being Relational Chapter 6: Knowing Relationally Chapter 7: Acting Relationally Part III: Shifts in Ethical Theories: Beyond Naturalism and Constructivism Chapter 8: Shifted Naturalisms Chapter 9: Constructivism Chastened by the Natural Relationships of Agency Part IV: Ethics for Relational Agents Chapter 10: Relational Foundations for Environmental Ethics Chapter 11: Responsibilities for Relational AgencyReviewsThis book engages an important concern: how to create an environmental ethics that could support sustainability. [...] Instead of modernist, humanist, individualist ethics, even in the form of extended humanism or the alternative ontologies, the author proposes the relational agential strategy. Relationality (cooperative partnership) is placed at the center of agency. The agents are capable of self-correction, and the individual is responsible for developing one's agency toward inclusivity (i.e., ecological disposition). This is a promising advancement in thinking about the environmental ethics. While the intersections between agency, identity, and material relationships are hardly new questions, the ways to imagine moral agency matter. [...] It has been fascinating to read how the author carefully weaves together strands from several disciplines and schools of thought to establish her relational agency, which does not distance itself from epistemic sphere and calls to cultivate one's ecologically sensitive virtues. This book engages an important concern: how to create an environmental ethics that could support sustainability. [...] Instead of modernist, humanist, individualist ethics, even in the form of extended humanism or the alternative ontologies, the author proposes the relational agential strategy. Relationality (cooperative partnership) is placed at the center of agency. The agents are capable of self-correction, and the individual is responsible for developing one's agency toward inclusivity (i.e., ecological disposition). This is a promising advancement in thinking about the environmental ethics. While the intersections between agency, identity, and material relationships are hardly new questions, the ways to imagine moral agency matter. [...] It has been fascinating to read how the author carefully weaves together strands from several disciplines and schools of thought to establish her relational agency, which does not distance itself from epistemic sphere and calls to cultivate one's ecologically sensitive virtues.--Anne Kull, University of Tartu Author InformationSuvielise Nurmi is postdoc researcher in ethics and environmental philosophy at the University of Helsinki. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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