Fittingness and Environmental Ethics

Michael S. Northcott is Professor Emeritus of Ethics at the University of Edinburgh and Guest Professor at the Indonesian Consortium of Religious Studies at Universitas Gadjah Mada Graduate School in Yogyakarta (Indonesia). He is also Guest Professor of Systematic Theology at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven (Belgium). Steven C. van den Heuvel is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven (Belgium).

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Michael S. Northcott and Steven C. van den Heuvel

Part I Metaphysics and Aesthetics

1 Fittingness and Other-Regarding Attitudes in Environmental Aesthetics

Emily Brady

2 Commonage Consciousness and Fitting in with the Earth: John Moriarty and Deep Ecology

Nora Ward

3 On the Ethics and Metaphysics of Fittingness, Affordances and Providence

Michael Bauwens

4 Fittingness and Environmental Ethics: Perspectives from Chinese Religion and Philosophy

JunSoo Park

Part II Theological Perspectives on Fittingness

5 The Ontological Turn, Religious Tradition, and Human Cosmological Fittingness

Michael S. Northcott

6 Fittingness and the Spiritual-Religious Nature of Environmentalism

Johan de Tavernier

7 Fittingness as Attunement? Being Ecological with Timothy Morton and Hans Urs von Balthasar

Yves de Maeseneer

8 Anselm on Fittingness: Various Concepts of Fittingness in the Cur Deus homo

Rostislav Tkachenko

Part III Practical Applications

9 Fittingness as a Dynamic of Social Interaction: Implications for Embedding Ecological Concerns in Community Life and Practice

Jack Barentsen

10 When ‘Fitting in’ means to ‘Care’: Proposing a Form-of-Life for Environmental Care

Emilio di Somma

11 Representation as Isolation: The Unfittingness of Waste

Gregory Jensen

12 The Challenge and Promise of Queer Ecology for Understanding ‘Fittingness’: A Theological Engagement

Steven C. van den Heuvel

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