Narrative Ethics, Media and the Morality of the Ecological Modern: The Case of Sweden
The Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre in his groundbreaking analysis of contemporary ethics, After Virtue: A Study of Moral Theory, asserted that modernity was devoid of a unified moral system. This observation has been noted by, among others, the ecophilosopher Arran Gare as a means of deal...
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| description | The Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre in his groundbreaking analysis of contemporary ethics, After Virtue: A Study of Moral Theory, asserted that modernity was devoid of a unified moral system. This observation has been noted by, among others, the ecophilosopher Arran Gare as a means of dealing with approaches to contemporary crisis. By characterizing debates about the future as reflexively constructed articulations of modernity, this paper briefly considers how such a perspective is useful when attempting to communicate questions of development under contemporary conditions. Using qualitative examples from modern Sweden taken from a larger corpus of research to speculate on the potential for normative conceptual change, it uses the self-styled enlightened polity as a case study to discuss how environmental knowledge is instrumentalized in self-consciously modern contexts. MacIntyre’s insight thus provides a view into the relationship between discourse and practice which recognizes the situated nature of environmental argumentation over uniform green epistemologies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-85eb5d037075472c84bb8c910e358c4e2023-02-15T16:19:18ZengCappadocia UniversityEcocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities2717-89432020-12-0112769110.46863/ecocene.525Narrative Ethics, Media and the Morality of the Ecological Modern: The Case of SwedenDominic Hinde0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6081-5672Queen Margaret UniversityThe Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre in his groundbreaking analysis of contemporary ethics, After Virtue: A Study of Moral Theory, asserted that modernity was devoid of a unified moral system. This observation has been noted by, among others, the ecophilosopher Arran Gare as a means of dealing with approaches to contemporary crisis. By characterizing debates about the future as reflexively constructed articulations of modernity, this paper briefly considers how such a perspective is useful when attempting to communicate questions of development under contemporary conditions. Using qualitative examples from modern Sweden taken from a larger corpus of research to speculate on the potential for normative conceptual change, it uses the self-styled enlightened polity as a case study to discuss how environmental knowledge is instrumentalized in self-consciously modern contexts. MacIntyre’s insight thus provides a view into the relationship between discourse and practice which recognizes the situated nature of environmental argumentation over uniform green epistemologies.https://ecocene.kapadokya.edu.tr/index.php/ecocene/article/view/25modernityswedenecophilosophyrhetoricalasdair macintyreecomodernism |
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| title | Narrative Ethics, Media and the Morality of the Ecological Modern: The Case of Sweden |
| title_full | Narrative Ethics, Media and the Morality of the Ecological Modern: The Case of Sweden |
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| title_short | Narrative Ethics, Media and the Morality of the Ecological Modern: The Case of Sweden |
| title_sort | narrative ethics media and the morality of the ecological modern the case of sweden |
| topic | modernity sweden ecophilosophy rhetoric alasdair macintyre ecomodernism |
| url | https://ecocene.kapadokya.edu.tr/index.php/ecocene/article/view/25 |
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