Ethics for a Broken World: Imagining Philosophy after Catastrophe

Ethics for a Broken World: Imagining Philosophy after Catastrophe

by Tim Mulgan
Ethics for a Broken World: Imagining Philosophy after Catastrophe

Ethics for a Broken World: Imagining Philosophy after Catastrophe

by Tim Mulgan

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Overview

In Ethics for a Broken World Tim Mulgan imagines how the future might judge us and how living in a time of global environmental degradation might reshape the politics and ethics of the future. 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 - the central ethical questions of our time are shown to look very different from the perspective of a ruined world. By looking into the future to revisit the present, Mulgan aims to reimagine contemporary philosophy in an historical context and, with the benefit of hindsight, highlight the contingency of our own moral and political ideals.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780773539457
Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date: 12/07/2011
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Tim Mulgan is professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of St Andrews. His books include Understanding Utilitarianism.
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