Kantian Ethics and Environmental Philosophy

Pursuing the Good in an Age of Crisis

AvFiacha D. Heneghan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Human beings have desires and obligations. A Kantian framework reveals the morally significant conflict between these two. In the context of looming environmental crises of our own making, we may be forced in many respects to choose between environmental obligations and the pursuit of our well-being. Kantian Ethics and Environmental Philosophy begins by examining a tendency in philosophical thought as old as the Ancient Greeks: the temptation to minimize or even theorize away such conflicts. By contrast, this book argues that acknowledging the reality of the choices ahead is a necessary first step to forming a coherent and rational hope for a better world.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-01-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:392 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cycles
Antal sidor:168
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399531535

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

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Fiacha D. Heneghan is an independent scholar and tutor, who completed his PhD at Vanderbilt University in 2020. He has published journal articles in Philosophy Today, Southwest Philosophy Review and Idealistic Studies. He has published 3 book chapters. For four years he was Research Assistant to Julian Wuerth for The Cambridge Kant Lexicon.

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Through a meticulous engagement with Kant’s writings on hope and the highest good, Heneghan develops a notion of radical hope through which philosophy becomes more than a consolation for the existence of suffering, but also an ethical approach to contemporary moral crises with seemingly impossible solutions, such as looming environmental catastrophe.

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Abbreviations for Primary SourcesIntroduction: Conscience, the Good and Philosophical Consolations1. Optimism, Epicureanism and the Lisbon Earthquake2. Kant’s Commonsense Critique of Stoic and Epicurean Ethics3. The Problem of the Highest good4. Radical HopeConclusion: The Limits of Hopeful PessimismBibliography

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