Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION:

The Cross-Pollinating Discourses of Nature and Ethics
Gary Keogh

SECTION ONE: THE NATURE OF ETHICS

1.Aristotelian Virtue and the Freudian Challenge to Second Nature
Isabel Kaeslin

2.The Moral Tragedy of the Biological Imperative: What Nietzsche can and cannot Teach us about the Evolution of Morality
Scott M. James and Matthew C. Eshleman

3.On the Relevance of Evolutionary Biology to Ethical Naturalism
Parisa Moosavi

4.A Gift or a Given? On the Role of Life in Løgstrup’s Ethics
Robert Stern

5.Varieties of Naturalism: From Foot’s ‘Natural Goodness’ to Murdoch’s Non-Dogmatic Naturalism
Maria Silvia Vaccarezza


SECTION TWO: THE ETHICS OF NATURE

6.Un/natural Creation(s): Posthumanism, Biotechnology, and Exploring the (Place in) Nature of Humans and Artificial Life
Scott Midson

7.An Ethics of Fidelity: Luther, Hauerwas and Environmental Activism
Benjamin J. Wood

8.The Ethics of Atmosfear: Communicating the Effects of Climate Change on Extreme Weather
Vladimir Jankovic & David M. Schultz

9.Hegel, Nature, and Ethics
Alison Stone

About the Author

Gary Keogh is former lecturer in religions and theology at the University of Manchester.

Reviews

This book is not just one more volume on the ethics of nature and the environment but is a profound philosophical and theological mining of selected classical and contemporary thinkers’ relevance for a truly transdisciplinary discourse about the entanglement of our images of nature and morality. Aristotle, Luther, Hegel, Nietzsche, Darwin, Freud and Murdoch meet each other and the reader in a demanding, rich, and thought-provoking dialogue on naturalism, artificiality, virtue, evolution and the painfully gripping question of how to cope with the “atmosfear” in times of anthropogenic climate and weather change.
*Sigurd Bergmann, , Norwegian University of Science and Technology*