Mulgan Tim - Ethics For A Broken World Imagining Philosophy After Catastrophe - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Ethics For A Broken World Imagining Philosophy After Catastrophe
Author(s): Mulgan Tim
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781844654888
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 10/31/2011
Category: Ethics & Moral Philosophy