Fittingness and Environmental Ethics: Philosophical, Theological and Applied Perspectives

Michael S. Northcott (Curatore)

Steven C. van den Heuvel (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023

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.

• Curatore: Michael S. Northcott, Steven C. van den Heuvel
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 220 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 453 gr.
• EAN: 9781032145839

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