Toward Environmental Wholeness

Toward Environmental Wholeness proposes a new understanding of environmental wholeness that is needed to address the ethical challenges posed by environmental and climate crises. Relying on the studies of numerous historians, Patrick H. Byrne traces the complex developments in environmental and clim...

Celý popis

Uloženo v:
Podrobná bibliografie
Hlavní autor: Byrne, Patrick H.
Médium: Online
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: State University of New York Press 2025
Témata:
On-line přístup:ONIX_20251007T103705_9781438496993_4
Tagy: Přidat tag
Žádné tagy, Buďte první, kdo vytvoří štítek k tomuto záznamu!
_version_ 1869522770173362176
author Byrne, Patrick H.
author_browse Byrne, Patrick H.
author_facet Byrne, Patrick H.
author_sort Byrne, Patrick H.
collection Directory of Open Access Books
description Toward Environmental Wholeness proposes a new understanding of environmental wholeness that is needed to address the ethical challenges posed by environmental and climate crises. Relying on the studies of numerous historians, Patrick H. Byrne traces the complex developments in environmental and climate change sciences and how they have posed complex ethical challenges. Drawing upon the thought of Bernard Lonergan, he shows how seemingly contradictory contributions from diverse ethical traditions can be brought together into a framework for responding to what the developing sciences are telling us about our current situation and evaluating our realistic options. Byrne reveals how the limitations of a utilitarian approach to environmental ethics had to be expanded into more holistic approaches and the difficulties those approaches encountered-especially the Romantic notions of a pristine, unchanging nature to be preserved and humans as alien. Environmental and climate change sciences have revealed the complex, dynamic natural and human systems that now call for a more dynamic vision of the whole as the basis for environmental ethics. The book also examines how the initiatives of Pope Francis' Laudato si' and the United Nations' Strategic Development Goals are responding to these challenges.
format Online
id doab-20.500.12854ir-167224
institution Directory of Open Access Books
language eng
publishDate 2025
publishDateRange 2025
publishDateSort 2025
publisher State University of New York Press
publisherStr State University of New York Press
record_format ojs
spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1672242025-10-16T13:08:10Z Toward Environmental Wholeness Byrne, Patrick H. thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science Toward Environmental Wholeness proposes a new understanding of environmental wholeness that is needed to address the ethical challenges posed by environmental and climate crises. Relying on the studies of numerous historians, Patrick H. Byrne traces the complex developments in environmental and climate change sciences and how they have posed complex ethical challenges. Drawing upon the thought of Bernard Lonergan, he shows how seemingly contradictory contributions from diverse ethical traditions can be brought together into a framework for responding to what the developing sciences are telling us about our current situation and evaluating our realistic options. Byrne reveals how the limitations of a utilitarian approach to environmental ethics had to be expanded into more holistic approaches and the difficulties those approaches encountered-especially the Romantic notions of a pristine, unchanging nature to be preserved and humans as alien. Environmental and climate change sciences have revealed the complex, dynamic natural and human systems that now call for a more dynamic vision of the whole as the basis for environmental ethics. The book also examines how the initiatives of Pope Francis' Laudato si' and the United Nations' Strategic Development Goals are responding to these challenges. 2025-10-16T13:08:10Z 2025-10-16T13:08:10Z 2025-10-07T08:39:43Z 2024 book ONIX_20251007T103705_9781438496993_4 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106313 9781438496993 https://admin.directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/167224 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/106313/1/9781438496993.epub State University of New York Press SUNY Press 0f550462-c858-47b8-88c4-954ef9892639 9781438496993 SUNY Press 341 United States open access
spellingShingle thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science
Byrne, Patrick H.
Toward Environmental Wholeness
title Toward Environmental Wholeness
title_full Toward Environmental Wholeness
title_fullStr Toward Environmental Wholeness
title_full_unstemmed Toward Environmental Wholeness
title_short Toward Environmental Wholeness
title_sort toward environmental wholeness
topic thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science
topic_facet thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science
url ONIX_20251007T103705_9781438496993_4
work_keys_str_mv AT byrnepatrickh towardenvironmentalwholeness