Les éthiques environnementales aux bords du politique. Esquisse d'un perfectionnisme écocentrique

Since the non-anthropocentric environmental ethics hardly fit in the traditional categories of liberal political thought, they did not succeed in establishing on a political ground. As a matter of fact, the research on ecological democracy has rarely taken inspiration from environmental ethics. Neve...

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Main Author: Rémi Beau 
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Published: Éditions en environnement VertigO 2020-04-01
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description Since the non-anthropocentric environmental ethics hardly fit in the traditional categories of liberal political thought, they did not succeed in establishing on a political ground. As a matter of fact, the research on ecological democracy has rarely taken inspiration from environmental ethics. Nevertheless, the recent thoughts on democracy as a form of life spread a new light on the contribution of an ecocentric ethics to the political thought. This contribution is revealed by the study of the ordinary practices of reproducing the daily life and maintaining the community. In light of the dialogue between Henry David Thoreau and Baird Callicott, I highlight the way a democratic definition of the relationships between the individuals and their socio-ecological communities calls for the development of an ecocentric perfectionism.
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Les éthiques environnementales aux bords du politique. Esquisse d'un perfectionnisme écocentrique
VertigO
political ecology
environmental ethics
ecocentrism
Thoreau
Callicott
democratic perfectionism
title Les éthiques environnementales aux bords du politique. Esquisse d'un perfectionnisme écocentrique
title_full Les éthiques environnementales aux bords du politique. Esquisse d'un perfectionnisme écocentrique
title_fullStr Les éthiques environnementales aux bords du politique. Esquisse d'un perfectionnisme écocentrique
title_full_unstemmed Les éthiques environnementales aux bords du politique. Esquisse d'un perfectionnisme écocentrique
title_short Les éthiques environnementales aux bords du politique. Esquisse d'un perfectionnisme écocentrique
title_sort les ethiques environnementales aux bords du politique esquisse d un perfectionnisme ecocentrique
topic political ecology
environmental ethics
ecocentrism
Thoreau
Callicott
democratic perfectionism
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