- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Adapting Humanity
- I Adapting Restoration to Climate Change
- 1 Nature Restoration as a Paradigm for the Human Relationship with Nature
- 2 Environmental Virtues and the Aims of Restoration
- 3 Global Warming and Virtues of Ecological Restoration
- 4 History, Novelty, and Virtue in Ecological Restoration
- II Integrating Ecology into the Virtue of Justice
- 5 The Death of Restoration?
- 6 Animal Flourishing and Capabilities in an Era of Global Change
- 7 Environment as Meta-capability: Why a Dignified Human Life Requires a Stable Climate System
- 8 Justice, Ecological Integrity, and Climate Change
- III Adjusting Character to a Changing Environment
- 9 Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming
- 10 The Virtue of Responsibility for the Global Climate
- 11 Rethinking Greed
- 12 Are We the Scum of the Earth? Climate Change, Geoengineering, and Humanity’s Challenge
- IV Reorganizing Institutions to Enable Human Virtue
- 13 The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Caused by Us
- 14 Human Values and Institutional Responses to Climate Change
- 15 Alienation and the Commons
- 16 Thinking like a Planet
- About the Contributors
- Index
Alienation and the Commons
Alienation and the Commons
- Chapter:
- (p.298) (p.299) 15 Alienation and the Commons
- Source:
- Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change
- Author(s):
Steven Vogel
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter discusses the conception of alienation from nature, and argues that such a conception would be helpful in thinking about environmental questions and their relations to political and social ones. It also examines the implications of Marx’s account for the question of alienation from nature and for environmental philosophy in general.
Keywords: alienation, nature, Marx, environmental philosophy, philosophy
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Adapting Humanity
- I Adapting Restoration to Climate Change
- 1 Nature Restoration as a Paradigm for the Human Relationship with Nature
- 2 Environmental Virtues and the Aims of Restoration
- 3 Global Warming and Virtues of Ecological Restoration
- 4 History, Novelty, and Virtue in Ecological Restoration
- II Integrating Ecology into the Virtue of Justice
- 5 The Death of Restoration?
- 6 Animal Flourishing and Capabilities in an Era of Global Change
- 7 Environment as Meta-capability: Why a Dignified Human Life Requires a Stable Climate System
- 8 Justice, Ecological Integrity, and Climate Change
- III Adjusting Character to a Changing Environment
- 9 Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming
- 10 The Virtue of Responsibility for the Global Climate
- 11 Rethinking Greed
- 12 Are We the Scum of the Earth? Climate Change, Geoengineering, and Humanity’s Challenge
- IV Reorganizing Institutions to Enable Human Virtue
- 13 The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Caused by Us
- 14 Human Values and Institutional Responses to Climate Change
- 15 Alienation and the Commons
- 16 Thinking like a Planet
- About the Contributors
- Index
