Eco-Republic What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living

Name: Eco-Republic What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living
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ISBN: 9780691162201

ISBN-10: 0691162204

ISBN-13: 9780691162201

Edition: 2011

Authors: Melissa Lane

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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…

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List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/21/2022
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 34.29" wide x 38.11" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English