Ethics for a Broken World: Imagining Philosophy After Catastrophe - Hardcover

Mulgan, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844654877 ISBN 13: 9781844654871

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Tim Mulgan is Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. His books include Understanding Utilitarianism (Acumen, 2008).

Review:

"A bold, creative, provocative, ingenious, and important book that will be of tremendous interest to students and teachers of ethical, political, and environmental philosophy." John Seery, Pomona College, California

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1844654877
• ISBN 13: 9781844654871
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256