The Ontological Maze
Ethics, Dignity and the Critical Essences of Identity and Sustainability
Summary
Present society highlights increasing levels of inequality. Ethics should try to create constructivist bridges, which the author shows by a meta-ontological model, described in its «centripetal» inclination.
If we do not respect ourselves, others, and the environment that hosts us, we will never be able to define ourselves as «human» beings, that is, beings endowed with «dignity». Any responsibility makes sense to the extent that this respect – which we could include in the category of «taking care» – constitutes the epistemological background of ethical lives.
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- FM Epigraph
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I Sustainability Ethics and Tipping Points: A Critical-Reconstructive Examination
- Chapter 1 Epistemological Premise to Sustainability Ethics
- Chapter 2 “Regressive Sustainability”?
- Part II Tunefully Comprehensive Ethics, Critical-Identitarian Justice of Otherness, Meta-Ontological Model of Equity: Toward the “Dignity Ethical Manifesto”
- Chapter 3 Tunefully Comprehensive Ethics
- Chapter 4 “Critical-Identitarian Justice of Otherness”
- Chapter 5 Toward a “Meta-Ontological Model of Equity”
- Chapter 6 Dignity and “Tunefully Comprehensive Ethics”
- The “Dignity Ethical Manifesto”: For an Authentic “Tunefully Comprehensive Ethics”
- Bibliography
- Index of Key Terms
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2023057871
Cover image: Stefania Grasso, “Epistemic Nuances”, 2023.
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DOI 10.3726/b21615
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About the author
Marco Ettore Grasso (PhD in Philosophy of Law) is currently collaborating on the subjects of Theoretical Philosophy and Philosophy of Sustainable Development at the University of Macerata (Department of Humanities). He is the author of numerous publications, including some books on resilience and sustainability ethics.
About the book
This book presents itself as a new transformative-emancipatory path: it attempts to reconcile the sphere of humanity, and particularly that of dignity, with the dimensions of conscience, vulnerability, and identity. These dimensions cross several cultural boundaries and encompass various theoretical hypotheses, in line with certain critical ontologies.
Present society highlights increasing levels of inequality. Ethics should try to create constructivist bridges, which the author shows by a meta-ontological model, described in its “centripetal” inclination.
If we do not respect ourselves, others, and the environment that hosts us, we will never be able to define ourselves as “human” beings, that is, beings endowed with “dignity”. Any responsibility makes sense to the extent that this respect – which we could include in the category of “taking care” – constitutes the epistemological background of ethical lives.
This eBook can be cited
This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.
Sustainability is commendable, but what “sustainable” is needs careful critical analysis. By my account, a sustainable biosphere is what is most urgent. Humans are the first species in over a billion years of life on Earth to put the planet in jeopardy.1
– Holmes Rolston
1 I thank Professor Rolston for these words of comment that he dedicated to my work.
Contents
PART I Sustainability Ethics and Tipping Points: A Critical-Reconstructive Examination
CHAPTER 1
Epistemological Premise to Sustainability Ethics
CHAPTER 2
“Regressive Sustainability”?
CHAPTER 3
Tunefully Comprehensive Ethics
CHAPTER 4
“Critical-Identitarian Justice of Otherness”
CHAPTER 5
Toward a “Meta-Ontological Model of Equity”
CHAPTER 6
Dignity and “Tunefully Comprehensive Ethics”
The “Dignity Ethical Manifesto”: For an Authentic “Tunefully Comprehensive Ethics”
Introduction
The concept of sustainability has often been abused and exploited from various points of view. Therefore, could this concept be interpreted as an “ideology,” in the perspective of a “regression”? On the contrary, it could also be defined as a mere metaphor for progress. What “ressentiment,” what “skepticism” and what “truth” follow from this? These are some of the questions that this work intends to answer.
Details
- Pages
- VIII, 186
- Year
- 2024
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781803744148
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781803744155
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781803744131
- DOI
- 10.3726/b21615
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2024 (February)
- Keywords
- indigenous cosmovisions REGRESSIVE SUSTAINABILITY TUNEFULLY COMPREHENSIVE ETHICS SUSTAINABILITY ETHICS DIGNITY AND IDENTITY CRITICAL ONTOLOGIES CRITICAL-IDENTITARIAN JUSTICE OF OTHERNESS META-ONTOLOGICAL MODEL OF EQUITY MANIFESTO
- Published
- Oxford, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, 2024. VIII, 186 pp.
