TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lane,Melissa
TI  - Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living 
SN  - 9780691151243
U1  - 338.9/27 23
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - BUSINESS &amp
KW  - ECONOMICS
KW  - Development
KW  - Sustainable Development
KW  - Environmental Economics
KW  - BUSINESS and amp
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - History &amp
KW  - Surveys
KW  - Ancient &amp
KW  - Classical
KW  - History and amp
KW  - Ancient and amp
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Adeimantus
KW  - Advertising
KW  - Advocacy
KW  - Akrasia
KW  - Allegory of the Cave
KW  - Analogy
KW  - Aristotelianism
KW  - Calculation
KW  - Callicles
KW  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Cardinal virtues
KW  - Certainty
KW  - Climate change
KW  - Communism
KW  - Consequentialism
KW  - Consideration
KW  - Convenience
KW  - Cost–benefit analysis
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Crito
KW  - Danielle Allen
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Deontological ethics
KW  - Dictatorship
KW  - Discipline
KW  - Economics
KW  - Environmentalist
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Ethos
KW  - Friedrich Nietzsche
KW  - George Kateb
KW  - Glaucon
KW  - Greenhouse gas
KW  - Hannah Arendt
KW  - Harm principle
KW  - Hedonism
KW  - Illustration
KW  - Immanuel Kant
KW  - Infrastructure
KW  - Institution
KW  - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
KW  - John Stuart Mill
KW  - Jonathon Porritt
KW  - Just society
KW  - Liberal democracy
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Modernity
KW  - Morality
KW  - Of Education
KW  - Oligarchy
KW  - On Liberty
KW  - Our Common Future
KW  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Phenomenon
KW  - Philip Pettit
KW  - Philosopher
KW  - Plato
KW  - Platonism
KW  - Pleonexia
KW  - Political philosophy
KW  - Politician
KW  - Politics
KW  - Pricing
KW  - Principle
KW  - Protagoras
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Public policy
KW  - Quentin Skinner
KW  - Reflections on the Revolution in France
KW  - Regulation
KW  - Renewable energy
KW  - Republic (Plato)
KW  - Requirement
KW  - Ring of Gyges
KW  - Ruler
KW  - Science
KW  - Scientific consensus
KW  - Scientist
KW  - Self-control
KW  - Self-interest
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Sophist
KW  - Status quo bias
KW  - Supply (economics)
KW  - Tax
KW  - Technology
KW  - The Philosopher
KW  - Theory
KW  - Think tank
KW  - Thought
KW  - Totalitarianism
KW  - Utilitarianism
KW  - Value (ethics)
KW  - Virtue ethics
KW  - Voting
KW  - Wealth
KW  - Writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Part I. INERTIA --; Prologue to Chapter 1: Plato’s Cave --; 1. Introduction: Inertia as Failure of the Political Imagination --; An Unconsciously Platonic Prologue to Chapter 2: Carbon Detox --; 2. From Greed to Glory: Ancient to Modern Ethics – and Back Again? --; Prologue to Chapter 3: Plato’s Ring of Gyges --; 3. Underpinning Inertia: The Idea of Negligibility --; Part II. IMAGINATION --; Prologue to Chapter 4: Post-Platonic Perspectives on the Republic --; 4. Meet Plato’s Republic --; Prologue to Chapter 5: Plato on Why Virtue Matters --; 5. The City and the Soul --; Prologue to Chapter 6: Plato’s Idea of the Good --; 6. The Idea of the Good --; Part III. INITIATIVE --; Prologue to Chapter 7: Revisiting Plato’s Cave --; 7. Initiative and Individuals: A (Partly) Platonic Political Project --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access
N2  - An ecologically sustainable society cannot be achieved without citizens who possess the virtues and values that will foster it, and who believe that individual actions can indeed make a difference. Eco-Republic draws on ancient Greek thought--and Plato's Republic in particular--to put forward a new vision of citizenship that can make such a society a reality. Melissa Lane develops a model of a society whose health and sustainability depend on all its citizens recognizing a shared standard of value and shaping their personal goals and habits accordingly. Bringing together the moral and political ideas of the ancients with the latest social and psychological theory, Lane illuminates the individual's vital role in social change, and articulates new ways of understanding what is harmful and what is valuable, what is a benefit and what is a cost, and what the relationship between public and private well-being ought to be.Eco-Republic reveals why we must rethink our political imagination if we are to meet the challenges of climate change and other urgent environmental concerns. Offering a unique reflection on the ethics and politics of sustainability, the book goes beyond standard approaches to virtue ethics in philosophy and current debates about happiness in economics and psychology. Eco-Republic explains why health is a better standard than happiness for capturing the important links between individual action and social good, and diagnoses the reasons why the ancient concept of virtue has been sorely neglected yet is more relevant today than ever
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400838356?locatt=mode:legacy
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