Agency Is Ecological

Comparative Religious Ethics and the Greening of Moral Theory

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ID14760263
AuthorsWilliam A Barbieri (corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume52
Issue4
Pages496-519
Publication date2024-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jore.12487
OpenAlexW4405839561
LanguageEN
References cited66

Developments along various epistemic fronts have been gradually modifying our ethical conception of what constitutes agency. For several reasons, we should acknowledge in particular that there is an irremediably ecological character to moral action, in a number of respects. After providing a broad analysis of the ecological turn in moral theory, I reflect on some of its implications for our understanding of the historicity of morals. I then comment on ways in which the field of comparative religious ethics can enrich this emergent account of ecological agency, and vice versa

Action (physics · Agency (philosophy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Historicity (philosophy · Moral agency · Normative ethics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Theology and Philosophy of Evil · Ecology

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