Ecological Moral Character: A Catholic Model

Nancy M. Rourke's Ecological Moral Character presents an ecological model for imagining Aquinas' vision of moral character, integrating concepts of ecology with Aquinas' vision and describing the dynamics of a moral character in terms of the processes and functions that take place in an ecosystem. It challenges readers to choose deliberately the models we use to imagine moral character and offers this ecological virtue model as a vital framework for a period of environmental crisis.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 184 pages
Publication date: 01 March 2024
Publisher: Georgetown University Press

An ecological model through which we can imagine Aquinas' vision of moral character is presented in Nancy M. Rourke's book Ecological Moral Character. This model integrates concepts of ecology with Aquinas' vision and describes the dynamics of a moral character in terms of the processes and functions that take place in an ecosystem. The virtues, passions, will, and intellect are also described in terms of this model. Ecological Moral Character encourages readers to choose deliberately the models we use to imagine moral character and offers this ecological virtue model as a vital framework for a period of environmental crisis.

The images we use to think about moral character are powerful. They inform our understanding of the moral virtues and the ways in which moral character develops. However, this aspect of virtue ethics is rarely discussed. In Ecological Moral Character, Nancy M. Rourke creates an ecological model through which we can form images of moral character. She integrates concepts of ecology with Aquinas' vision and describes the dynamics of a moral character in terms of the processes and functions that take place in an ecosystem.

The virtues, passions, will, and intellect are also described in terms of this model. Ecological Moral Character asks readers to choose deliberately the models we use to imagine moral character and offers this ecological virtue model as a vital framework for a period of environmental crisis.

The images we use to think about moral character are powerful. They inform our understanding of the moral virtues and the ways in which moral character develops. However, this aspect of virtue ethics is rarely discussed. In Ecological Moral Character, Nancy M. Rourke creates an ecological model through which we can form images of moral character. She integrates concepts of ecology with Aquinas' vision and describes the dynamics of a moral character in terms of the processes and functions that take place in an ecosystem.

The virtues, passions, will, and intellect are also described in terms of this model. Ecological Moral Character asks readers to choose deliberately the models we use to imagine moral character and offers this ecological virtue model as a vital framework for a period of environmental crisis.

Weight: 282g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781647124038