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The Need for Virtue in an Age of Climate Change

Allison, Zachary R
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1533163230320019

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2018, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Philosophy (Arts and Sciences).
Dale Jamieson, Stephen Gardiner, Allen Thompson, and Byron Williston are four of the most prominent philosophers who have written on the role that virtue plays in an age of climate change. None of them, however, consider how valuable virtue can be in serving preventative ends. Climate change is, in part, a moral failure and part of the task of mitigating climate change should be acknowledging this failure and working to make sure we do not commit the same mistakes of the past. In this thesis, I argue for the cultivation of a virtue that I call “holism” that I believe can help humanity achieve this end. In chapter one, I discuss the arguments of the aforementioned philosophers and identify how their views of virtue in the Anthropocene are not identical to my own. In chapter two, I spell out the virtue of holism and argue for how it can help humanity work towards not allowing another climate catastrophe to happen once the present crisis is mitigated. Finally, in chapter three, I consider possible objections to the claim that cultivating the virtues is necessary for adequately remedying climate change.
Scott Carson (Advisor)
James Petrik (Committee Member)
Christoph Hanisch (Committee Member)
52 p.
Climate Change; Environmental Education; Environmental Management; Environmental Philosophy; Environmental Studies; Epistemology; Ethics; Philosophy
Virtue; Climate Change; Anthropocene; Holism; Sustainability; Dale Jamieson; Stephen Gardiner; Allen Thompson; Byron Williston; Green Virtues; Green; Nature

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  • Allison, Z. R. (2018). The Need for Virtue in an Age of Climate Change [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1533163230320019

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Allison, Zachary. The Need for Virtue in an Age of Climate Change. 2018. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1533163230320019.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Allison, Zachary. "The Need for Virtue in an Age of Climate Change." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1533163230320019

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