عنوان

Pragmatism, Piety, and Environmental Ethics

شماره

LA129503

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Pragmatism, Piety, and Environmental Ethics

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Ben Minteer

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

"The rise of pragmatism in environmental ethics in the 1990s was driven by several factors, including dissatisfaction with the field's dominant nonanthropocentrism and the desire to increase the political and policy influence of environmental ethics. Yet despite an emphasis on human experience as the foundation of environmental values and action, environmental pragmatists have paid little attention to the religious dimensions of human-nature interactions. In this paper I attempt to address this neglect by exploring the religious thought of John Dewey, arguably the most significant pragmatist philosopher of the classical period. I suggest that Dewey's understanding of religiosity-in particular, his concept of "natural piety"-instructs us to respect nonhuman nature as a source of human imaginative experience and self-unification. Although Dewey's naturalized approach to religious experience retains a broadly instrumentalist view toward nature, it is an instrumentality that supports a humble and appreciative attitude toward the environment and a sense of caution regarding the modification of nature for human purposes. I conclude by arguing that the recovery of Dewey's attitude of natural piety provides an important constraint on more aggressively anthropocentric approaches to human-nature relations, including those promoting sustainability as an alternative to traditional limits-based environmentalism. The rise of pragmatism in environmental ethics in the 1990s was driven by several factors, including dissatisfaction with the field's dominant nonanthropocentrism and the desire to increase the political and policy influence of environmental ethics. Yet despite an emphasis on human experience as the foundation of environmental values and action, environmental pragmatists have paid little attention to the religious dimensions of human-nature interactions. In this paper I attempt to address this neglect by exploring the religious thought of John Dewey, arguably the most significant pragmatist philosopher of the classical period. I suggest that Dewey's understanding of religiosity-in particular, his concept of "natural piety"-instructs us to respect nonhuman nature as a source of human imaginative experience and self-unification. Although Dewey's naturalized approach to religious experience retains a broadly instrumentalist view toward nature, it is an instrumentality that supports a humble and appreciative attitude toward the environment and a sense of caution regarding the modification of nature for human purposes. I conclude by arguing that the recovery of Dewey's attitude of natural piety provides an important constraint on more aggressively anthropocentric approaches to human-nature relations, including those promoting sustainability as an alternative to traditional limits-based environmentalism."

تاريخ نشر

2008

توصيف ظاهري

179-196

عنوان

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

شماره جلد

12/2-3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5357

اصطلاح موضوعی

ENVIRONMENTAL PRAGMATISM

اصطلاح موضوعی

JOHN DEWEY

اصطلاح موضوعی

NATURAL PIETY

اصطلاح موضوعی

NATURALISM

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ben Minteer

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/156853508X359976

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y