Emplotting Virtue
A Narrative Approach to Environmental Virtue Ethics
1st Edition
Published on 19. May 2014
258 pages
978-1-4384-5119-0 (ISBN)
Description
A rich hermeneutic account of the way virtue is understood and developed.
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English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
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Reflowable
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Total Illustrations: 1
Total Illustrations: 1
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978-1-4384-5119-0 (9781438451190)
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Brian Treanor is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Environmental Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the coeditor (with Forrest Clingerman, Martin Drenthen, and David Utsler) of Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics.
Content
Acknowledgments
1. Just What Sort of Person Would Do That?
Introduction
Moral Reasoning in Contemporary Ethics
Virtue Ethics
2. Virtue Ethics and Environmental Virtue Ethics
Virtue and Flourishing
The Middle Way
Emotion and Action
Virtue and the Environment
3. Virtue: A Constellation of Concerns
Virtue and Living Well
A Typology of Virtue: Individual, Social, and Environmental
4. A Story of Simplicity: A Case Study in Virtue
The Scope of Simplicity: More Than Material Restraint
The Scope of Simplicity: A 'Comprehensive' Virtue
Thoreau's Nature
5. The Challenge of Postmodernity
The Imprecision and Variability of Virtue Ethics
The Postmodern Condition
Postmodern Temptations: Hamlet's Indecision and Meursault's Indifference
"Postmodern" Virtue Ethics
6. Narrative Theory
Paul Ricoeur and Narrative Identity
Richard Kearney and Narrative Epiphanies
Martha Nussbaum and the Judicious Spectator
Wayne Booth and Coduction
Objections: The Return of Relativism and the Excesses of Imagination
7. Narrative Environmental Virtue Ethics
Introduction: Ethical Formation and Reformation
Ethical Education: Motivation and Transmission
Ethical Experimentation: Discernment and Understanding
Ethical Formation: Application and Cultivation
8. Epilogue: The "Narrative Goodness" Approach
The Need for Virtue Ethics and the Need for Narrative
Three Important Clarifications
The Literature of Life: A Life Worth Living, a Story Worth Telling
Notes
Index
1. Just What Sort of Person Would Do That?
Introduction
Moral Reasoning in Contemporary Ethics
Virtue Ethics
2. Virtue Ethics and Environmental Virtue Ethics
Virtue and Flourishing
The Middle Way
Emotion and Action
Virtue and the Environment
3. Virtue: A Constellation of Concerns
Virtue and Living Well
A Typology of Virtue: Individual, Social, and Environmental
4. A Story of Simplicity: A Case Study in Virtue
The Scope of Simplicity: More Than Material Restraint
The Scope of Simplicity: A 'Comprehensive' Virtue
Thoreau's Nature
5. The Challenge of Postmodernity
The Imprecision and Variability of Virtue Ethics
The Postmodern Condition
Postmodern Temptations: Hamlet's Indecision and Meursault's Indifference
"Postmodern" Virtue Ethics
6. Narrative Theory
Paul Ricoeur and Narrative Identity
Richard Kearney and Narrative Epiphanies
Martha Nussbaum and the Judicious Spectator
Wayne Booth and Coduction
Objections: The Return of Relativism and the Excesses of Imagination
7. Narrative Environmental Virtue Ethics
Introduction: Ethical Formation and Reformation
Ethical Education: Motivation and Transmission
Ethical Experimentation: Discernment and Understanding
Ethical Formation: Application and Cultivation
8. Epilogue: The "Narrative Goodness" Approach
The Need for Virtue Ethics and the Need for Narrative
Three Important Clarifications
The Literature of Life: A Life Worth Living, a Story Worth Telling
Notes
Index
