Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction: The Call for an Ecological Virtue Ethics xi
6. Part I: The Call From and to Earth
7. 1. Serving Nature: Completing the Ecosystem Services Circle 1
8. 2. Ecological Presence as a Virtue 31
9. Part II: Morality and Mortality
10. 3. A Ship from Delos 51
11. 4. Thanatopsis: Death Literacy for the Living 71
12. Part III: Insights from the Contemplative Wisdom Traditions
13. 5. What Are “Daoist” Virtues? Seeking an Ethical Perspective on Human Conduct and Ecology 93
14. 6. The Ecological Virtues of Buddhism 117
15. 7. Never Weary of Gazing: Contemplative Practice and the Cultivation of Ecological Virtue 135
16. Part IV: Philosophies of Virtue Ethics
17. 8. The Ethic of Sustainable Well-Being and Well-Becoming: A Systems Approach to Virtue Ethics 157
18. 9. Why Virtue Is Good for You: The Politics of Ecological Eudaimonism 179
19. Part V: Embodied Creature Connections to Others and Place
20. 10. “Owning Up to Being an Animal”: On the Ecological Virtues of Composure 201
21. 11. Worthy of This Mountain: Living a Life of Friction Against the Machine 213
22. 12. Stories of Love and Loss: Recommitting to Each Other and the Land 233
23. 13. Evoking Ethos: A Poetic Love Note to Place 253
24. Author Biographies 283
25. Index 287