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Fittingness and Environmental Ethics: Philosophical, Theological and Applied Perspectives (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies) - Softcover

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9781032218533: Fittingness and Environmental Ethics: Philosophical, Theological and Applied Perspectives (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies)
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ISBN 10: 1032218533 ISBN 13: 9781032218533
Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

This volume focuses on ‘fittingness’ as an ethical-aesthetical idea, and in particular examines how the concept is beneficial for environmental ethics. It brings together an innovative set of contributions to argue that fittingness is a significant but under-investigated facet of human ethical deliberation with both ethical and aesthetic dimensions. In widely diverse matters – from architecture to table manners – individuals and communities make decisions based on ‘fittingness’, also expressed in related terms, such as appropriateness, prudence, temperance, and mutuality. In the realm of environmental ethics, fittingness denotes a relation between conscious embodied persons and their habitats and is of relevance to judgements about how humans shape, and take up with, the non-human environment, and hence to ethical decisions about the development and use of the environment and non-human creatures. As such, fittingness can be of great benefit in reframing human relationships to the non-human, stimulating a way of living in the world that is fitting to the preservation of its fruitfulness, goodness, beauty, and truth.

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About the Author

Michael S. Northcott is Professor Emeritus of Ethics at the University of Edinburgh and Guest Professor at the Indonesian Consortium of Religious Studies at Universitas Gadjah Mada Graduate School in Yogyakarta (Indonesia). He is also Guest Professor of Systematic Theology at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven (Belgium).

Steven C. van den Heuvel is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven (Belgium).

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1032218533
ISBN 13 
9781032218533
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
234
Editor
Northcott Michael S., Heuvel Steven C. Van Den