New principles to live by

And a change of skin

Bibliographic Data

ID21570446
AuthorsB Davies (0000-0002-9797-0286, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume40
Issue3
Pages525-536
Publication date2024-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAustralian Journal of Environmental Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0814-0626 • E-ISSN: 2049-775X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/aee.2023.34
OpenAlexW4387741976
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

This paper explores the question of what matters and what is made to matter — the ethics of encounters in the intimate entwining of ontology and epistemology. Within an ethics based on matter and mattering, it explores the evolving symbiotic entanglement of humans with each other and with non-human beings, who, with us, make up the world. Our complex symbiotic relationality is discussed in relation to the limiting force of neoliberalism, where all that matters is economic growth and productivity. It asks what hope there is for the survival of the planet, when so many humans, including politicians of almost every stripe, have lost the capacity to think outside the neoliberal box. As things stand, as one scientist observed, it is as if we have a medical, terminal diagnosis, and, although there is a cure, we choose to ignore it. It asks what are those cures and explores the possibility that we humans might learn to respond — to be response-able to our planet, in its state of terminal distress

Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Humanism · Limiting · Ontology · Political science · Posthuman · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Postmodernism in Literature and Education

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