Ecological Neutrality and Liberal Survivalism
Abstract
Perhaps the most animated debate in green political thought-the subdiscipline of political theory devoted to the relations between humanity, politics and environment-addresses the question of the compatibility of ecologism and liberal democracy, more particularly the liberal aspects of the latter. The present article affirms and further elaborates earlier suggestions that existing approaches to this matter are either flawed or, when defensible, prone to produce trivial conclusions. Incompatibility of the two theories is always to be expected, in one form or another. It is argued that a characterization of political theories as families growing and changing over time, a notion partly derived from Wittgenstein’s family concept, allows us to understand ecologism and liberalism as evolving theories, and to anticipate the development of both-which may lead to far more surprising conclusions.
© 2006 by Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart
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- Ecological Neutrality and Liberal Survivalism
- Is Rawlsian Justice Bad for the Environment?
- Citizenship, Well-Being and Sustainability: Epicurus or Aristotle?
- Political Reasonableness and Nature’s Otherness
- Political Liberalism, the Non-Human Biotic and the Abiotic: A Response to Simon Hailwood
- Political Liberalism and Ecological Justice
- Distributive Justice and Climate Change. The Allocation of Emission Rights
- Refining Green Political Economy: From Ecological Modernisation to Economic Security and Sufficiency
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Ecological Neutrality and Liberal Survivalism
- Is Rawlsian Justice Bad for the Environment?
- Citizenship, Well-Being and Sustainability: Epicurus or Aristotle?
- Political Reasonableness and Nature’s Otherness
- Political Liberalism, the Non-Human Biotic and the Abiotic: A Response to Simon Hailwood
- Political Liberalism and Ecological Justice
- Distributive Justice and Climate Change. The Allocation of Emission Rights
- Refining Green Political Economy: From Ecological Modernisation to Economic Security and Sufficiency
