The Resource Eco-republic : what the ancients can teach us about ethics, virtue, and sustainable living, Melissa Lane
Eco-republic : what the ancients can teach us about ethics, virtue, and sustainable living, Melissa Lane
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- Summary
- An ecologically sustainable society cannot be achieved without citizens who possess the virtues and values that will foster it, and who believe that individual actions can indeed make a difference. Eco-Republic draws on ancient Greek thought--and Plato's Republic in particular--to put forward a new vision of citizenship that can make such a society a reality. Melissa Lane develops a model of a society whose health and sustainability depend on all its citizens recognizing a shared standard of value and shaping their personal goals and habits accordingly. Bringing together the moral and political ideas of the ancients with the latest social and psychological theory, Lane illuminates the individual's vital role in social change, and articulates new ways of understanding what is harmful and what is valuable, what is a benefit and what is a cost, and what the relationship between public and private well-being ought to be. Eco-Republic reveals why we must rethink our political imagination if we are to meet the challenges of climate change and other urgent environmental concerns. Offering a unique reflection on the ethics and politics of sustainability, the book goes beyond standard approaches to virtue ethics in philosophy and current debates about happiness in economics and psychology. Eco-Republic explains why health is a better standard than happiness for capturing the important links between individual action and social good, and diagnoses the reasons why the ancient concept of virtue has been sorely neglected yet is more relevant today than ever
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 245 pages)
- Note
- "First published in 2011 [in different form] by Peter Lang Ltd"--Title page verso
- Contents
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- Inertia
- Imagination
- Initiative
- Isbn
- 9781400838356
- Label
- Eco-republic : what the ancients can teach us about ethics, virtue, and sustainable living
- Title
- Eco-republic
- Title remainder
- what the ancients can teach us about ethics, virtue, and sustainable living
- Statement of responsibility
- Melissa Lane
- Subject
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- Climatic changes -- Philosophy
- Climatic changes -- Political aspects
- Climatic changes -- Political aspects
- Electronic books
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development | Sustainable Development
- Sustainability -- Philosophy
- Sustainability -- Political aspects
- PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys | Ancient & Classical
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- An ecologically sustainable society cannot be achieved without citizens who possess the virtues and values that will foster it, and who believe that individual actions can indeed make a difference. Eco-Republic draws on ancient Greek thought--and Plato's Republic in particular--to put forward a new vision of citizenship that can make such a society a reality. Melissa Lane develops a model of a society whose health and sustainability depend on all its citizens recognizing a shared standard of value and shaping their personal goals and habits accordingly. Bringing together the moral and political ideas of the ancients with the latest social and psychological theory, Lane illuminates the individual's vital role in social change, and articulates new ways of understanding what is harmful and what is valuable, what is a benefit and what is a cost, and what the relationship between public and private well-being ought to be. Eco-Republic reveals why we must rethink our political imagination if we are to meet the challenges of climate change and other urgent environmental concerns. Offering a unique reflection on the ethics and politics of sustainability, the book goes beyond standard approaches to virtue ethics in philosophy and current debates about happiness in economics and psychology. Eco-Republic explains why health is a better standard than happiness for capturing the important links between individual action and social good, and diagnoses the reasons why the ancient concept of virtue has been sorely neglected yet is more relevant today than ever
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- Lane, M. S.
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- Climatic changes
- Sustainability
- Climatic changes
- Sustainability
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
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- Climatic changes
- Label
- Eco-republic : what the ancients can teach us about ethics, virtue, and sustainable living, Melissa Lane
- Note
- "First published in 2011 [in different form] by Peter Lang Ltd"--Title page verso
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- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index
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- Inertia -- Imagination -- Initiative
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- ocn820301698
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- 1 online resource (ix, 245 pages)
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- 9781400838356
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- (OCoLC)820301698
- Label
- Eco-republic : what the ancients can teach us about ethics, virtue, and sustainable living, Melissa Lane
- Note
- "First published in 2011 [in different form] by Peter Lang Ltd"--Title page verso
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Inertia -- Imagination -- Initiative
- Control code
- ocn820301698
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 245 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400838356
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt1b5g7s
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)820301698
Subject
- Climatic changes -- Philosophy
- Climatic changes -- Political aspects
- Climatic changes -- Political aspects
- Electronic books
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development | Sustainable Development
- Sustainability -- Philosophy
- Sustainability -- Political aspects
- PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys | Ancient & Classical
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics
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