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Ethics for a broken world
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- Book Synopsis
- Imagine living in the future in a world already damaged by humankind, a world where resources are insufficient to meet everyone's basic needs and where a chaotic climate makes life precarious. Then imagine looking back into the past, back to our own time and assessing the ethics of the early twenty-first century. "Ethics for a Broken World" imagines how the future might judge us and how living in a time of global environmental degradation might utterly reshape the politics and ethics of the future. This book is presented as a series of history of philosophy lectures given in the future, studying the classic texts from a past age of affluence, our own time. The central ethical questions of our time are shown to look very different from the perspective of a ruined world. The aim of "Ethics for a Broken" World is to look at our present with the benefit of hindsight - to reimagine contemporary philosophy in an historical context - and to highlight the contingency of our own moral and political ideals.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781844654871
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Routledge, (31 October 2011)
- Number of Pages
- 228
- Weight
- 630 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 137 x 23 mm
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