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Living-With Wisdom: Permaculture and Symbiotic Ethics book cover

1st Edition

Living-With Wisdom Permaculture and Symbiotic Ethics

By Alexander Badman-King Copyright 2021
214 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Living-With Wisdom explores the way in which ancient Greek models of philosophy as an attempt to live ‘the good life’ can and should be realised through the practice of permaculture. Following the thought of Plato and Aristotle, the author places the achievement of wisdom and fulfilment at the centre of the good life, identifying these with the achievement of a complex admixture of virtues,... Read more

1. Moral knowledge (‘wisdom’) as the purpose of philosophy and life

PART I: Philosophy

2. Plato and Aristotle on the nature of wisdom

3. Moderate realism as the epistemic and metaethical basis of wisdom

4. An amalgamation of philosophy and anthropology as the best method for gaining wisdom

5. The necessity of aesthetics and evaluation, and the pre-eminence of narrative in ‘living-with’

PART II: Life

6. Purposiveness amongst living things as a focus of wisdom and the usefulness of fringe cases for acquiring wisdom

7. The inevitability of doing harm, the importance of feeling bad and the central role of honesty and courage

8. An effort to outline an attitude of steady attention, poignancy and good humour in the face of death, as constitutive of wisdom

Biography

Alexander Badman-King is an associate lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter, UK, where he is also a member of the Exeter Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics working group.

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