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Publisher:
Acumen Publishing
Online publication date:
February 2013
Print publication year:
2011
Online ISBN:
9781844654895
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/UPO9781844654895
Subjects:
Ethics, Philosophy
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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. The 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.

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"An excellent and hugely innovative introduction to political philosophy. By asking readers to imagine what our political philosophy might look like to members of a broken future, the book challenges many assumptions about resources and future generations that are implicit yet central to much contemporary political philosophy. The book offers a truly unique perspective, and will be a great benefit to students and teachers."

Jonathan Quong

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