INTRODUCTION:
The Cross-Pollinating Discourses of Nature and Ethics
Gary Keogh
SECTION ONE: THE NATURE OF ETHICS
1.Aristotelian Virtue and the Freudian Challenge to Second
Nature
Isabel Kaeslin
2.The Moral Tragedy of the Biological Imperative: What Nietzsche
can and cannot Teach us about the Evolution of Morality
Scott M. James and Matthew C. Eshleman
3.On the Relevance of Evolutionary Biology to Ethical
Naturalism
Parisa Moosavi
4.A Gift or a Given? On the Role of Life in Løgstrup’s Ethics
Robert Stern
5.Varieties of Naturalism: From Foot’s ‘Natural Goodness’ to
Murdoch’s Non-Dogmatic Naturalism
Maria Silvia Vaccarezza
SECTION TWO: THE ETHICS OF NATURE
6.Un/natural Creation(s): Posthumanism, Biotechnology, and
Exploring the (Place in) Nature of Humans and Artificial Life
Scott Midson
7.An Ethics of Fidelity: Luther, Hauerwas and Environmental
Activism
Benjamin J. Wood
8.The Ethics of Atmosfear: Communicating the Effects of Climate
Change on Extreme Weather
Vladimir Jankovic & David M. Schultz
9.Hegel, Nature, and Ethics
Alison Stone
Gary Keogh is former lecturer in religions and theology at the University of Manchester.
This book is not just one more volume on the ethics of nature and
the environment but is a profound philosophical and theological
mining of selected classical and contemporary thinkers’ relevance
for a truly transdisciplinary discourse about the entanglement of
our images of nature and morality. Aristotle, Luther, Hegel,
Nietzsche, Darwin, Freud and Murdoch meet each other and the reader
in a demanding, rich, and thought-provoking dialogue on naturalism,
artificiality, virtue, evolution and the painfully gripping
question of how to cope with the “atmosfear” in times of
anthropogenic climate and weather change.
*Sigurd Bergmann, , Norwegian University of Science and Technology*
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