Morality and the Environmental Crisis (Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society)

Morality and the Environmental Crisis (Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society)

by RogerS.Gottlieb (Author), RogerS.Gottlieb (Author)

Synopsis

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 explores 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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 252
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 21 Feb 2019

ISBN 10: 1107140730
ISBN 13: 9781107140738
Book Overview: The environmental crisis besieges morality with unanswered questions and ethical dilemmas, requiring fresh examination of nature's value, animal rights, activism, and despair.

Author Bio
Roger S. Gottlieb is Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and the Nautilus Book Award winning author or editor of twenty books of ethics, political theory, religious studies, and contemporary spirituality. He is internationally known as a leading analyst of religious environmentalism and for his original accounts of spirituality in an age of environmental crisis and the role of religion in a democratic society.