Brian Treanor is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Environmental Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the coeditor (with Forrest Clingerman, Martin Drenthen, and David Utsler) of Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics.

• Acknowledgments1. Just What Sort of Person Would Do That?IntroductionMoral Reasoning in Contemporary EthicsVirtue Ethics2. Virtue Ethics and Environmental Virtue EthicsVirtue and FlourishingThe Middle WayEmotion and ActionVirtue and the Environment3. Virtue: A Constellation of ConcernsVirtue and Living WellA Typology of Virtue: Individual, Social, and Environmental4. A Story of Simplicity: A Case Study in VirtueThe Scope of Simplicity: More Than Material RestraintThe Scope of Simplicity: A ‘Comprehensive’ VirtueThoreau’s Nature5. The Challenge of PostmodernityThe Imprecision and Variability of Virtue EthicsThe Postmodern ConditionPostmodern Temptations: Hamlet’s Indecision and Meursault’s Indifference"Postmodern" Virtue Ethics6. Narrative TheoryPaul Ricoeur and Narrative IdentityRichard Kearney and Narrative EpiphaniesMartha Nussbaum and the Judicious SpectatorWayne Booth and CoductionObjections: The Return of Relativism and the Excesses of Imagination7. Narrative Environmental Virtue EthicsIntroduction: Ethical Formation and ReformationEthical Education: Motivation and TransmissionEthical Experimentation: Discernment and UnderstandingEthical Formation: Application and Cultivation8. Epilogue: The "Narrative Goodness" ApproachThe Need for Virtue Ethics and the Need for NarrativeThree Important ClarificationsThe Literature of Life: A Life Worth Living, a Story Worth TellingNotesIndex

Brian Treanor is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Environmental Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the coeditor (with Forrest Clingerman, Martin Drenthen, and David Utsler) of Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics.

• Acknowledgments1. Just What Sort of Person Would Do That?IntroductionMoral Reasoning in Contemporary EthicsVirtue Ethics2. Virtue Ethics and Environmental Virtue EthicsVirtue and FlourishingThe Middle WayEmotion and ActionVirtue and the Environment3. Virtue: A Constellation of ConcernsVirtue and Living WellA Typology of Virtue: Individual, Social, and Environmental4. A Story of Simplicity: A Case Study in VirtueThe Scope of Simplicity: More Than Material RestraintThe Scope of Simplicity: A ‘Comprehensive’ VirtueThoreau’s Nature5. The Challenge of PostmodernityThe Imprecision and Variability of Virtue EthicsThe Postmodern ConditionPostmodern Temptations: Hamlet’s Indecision and Meursault’s Indifference"Postmodern" Virtue Ethics6. Narrative TheoryPaul Ricoeur and Narrative IdentityRichard Kearney and Narrative EpiphaniesMartha Nussbaum and the Judicious SpectatorWayne Booth and CoductionObjections: The Return of Relativism and the Excesses of Imagination7. Narrative Environmental Virtue EthicsIntroduction: Ethical Formation and ReformationEthical Education: Motivation and TransmissionEthical Experimentation: Discernment and UnderstandingEthical Formation: Application and Cultivation8. Epilogue: The "Narrative Goodness" ApproachThe Need for Virtue Ethics and the Need for NarrativeThree Important ClarificationsThe Literature of Life: A Life Worth Living, a Story Worth TellingNotesIndex