Ethics for a Broken World - Imagining Philosophy After Catastrophe (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Acumen Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Tim Mulgan
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-84465-488-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84465-488-5
Barcode:	9781844654888

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