Morality and the Environmental Crisis

The environmental crisis creates an unprecedented moral predicament: how to be a good person when our collective and individual actions contribute to immeasurable devastation and suffering. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources from philosophy, political theory, global religion, ecology, and contemporary spirituality, Roger S. Gottlieb explores the ethical ambiguities, challenges, and opportunities we face. Engagingly written, intellectually rigorous, and forcefully argued, this volume investigates the moral value of nature; the possibility of an 'ecological' democracy; how we treat animals; the demands and limits of individual responsibility and collective political change; contemporary ambiguities of rationality; and how to face environmental despair. In Morality and the Environmental Crisis, Gottlieb combines compassion for the difficulties of contemporary moral life with an unflinching ethical commitment to awareness and action.

Author: Roger S. Gottlieb
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/18/2019
Series: Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 9.00h x 9.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781316506127