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Relational Agency and Environmental Ethics

A Journey beyond Humanism as We Know It
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Why does ethics only weakly contribute to the most crucial problems of the current world? Relational Agency and Environmental Ethics: A Journey Beyond Humanism as We Know It explores how the concept of moral agency embedded in modern humanist ethics, in its reliance on environmentally harmful and scientifically implausible presuppositions, prevents ethics from efficiently supporting a sustainability transition. The modernist individualist notion of agency includes conceptual dichotomies between moral agency and human nature, mind and body, reason and emotion, and knowledge and will, yet it should be revised without dismissing responsibility, normativity, and a shared ground for critical assessment. Suvielise Nurmi proposes an agential shift resting on a relational concept of agency, combining ecofeminist and evolutionary criticisms of modernism together with various interdisciplinary discussions involving philosophy of mind, cognitive science, anthropology, social ontology, and developmental biology and psychology. This book argues that the relational shift can resolve the dilemma and bring environmental relationships to the core of ethical discourse: there is no ethics distinct from environmental ethics. Environmental responsibilities can be justified as responsibilities for one's relationally considered agency.
Suvielise Nurmi is postdoc researcher in ethics and environmental philosophy at the University of Helsinki.
Introduction Part I: Moral Agency in Environmental Ethics Chapter 1: Exceptional Humanism and Its Extensional Counterparts in Environmental Ethics Chapter 2: Moral Agency in Evolutionary Environmental Ethics: A Naturalist Alternative to Dichotomized Agency Chapter 3: Moral Agency in Feminist Environmental Ethics: A Constrained Constructivist Approach Chapter 4: Relational Agendas Part II: Relational Moral Agency Chapter 5: Being Relational Chapter 6: Knowing Relationally Chapter 7: Acting Relationally Part III: Shifts in Ethical Theories: Beyond Naturalism and Constructivism Chapter 8: Shifted Naturalisms Chapter 9: Constructivism Chastened by the Natural Relationships of Agency Part IV: Ethics for Relational Agents Chapter 10: Relational Foundations for Environmental Ethics Chapter 11: Responsibilities for Relational Agency
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