Reclaiming the Mundane: Comments on Albert Borgmann's Real American Ethics

Like much of his work, Albert Borgmanns Real American Ethics defies easy categorization. Neither analytic nor Continental in style, it bridges these traditions while remaining rmly connected to the issues and concerns facing real people in contemporary life. In particular, the book is of deep releva...

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Published in:Journal of agricultural & environmental ethics 2008, Vol.21 (1), p.65-73
Main Author: Hourdequin, Marion
Format: Article
Language:English
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Agricultural Economics
Americans
Architecture
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Borgmann, Albert
Decision making
Education
Environment
Environmental ethics
Ethics
Evolutionary Biology
Philosophy
Plant Sciences
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
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Summary:Like much of his work, Albert Borgmanns Real American Ethics defies easy categorization. Neither analytic nor Continental in style, it bridges these traditions while remaining rmly connected to the issues and concerns facing real people in contemporary life. In particular, the book is of deep relevance to the development of an ethics that attends to the material conditions of human existence. In its attention to the physical, social, and technological dimensions of moral life, the book emphasizes issues of central importance to environmental ethics. Having been corrupted by my philosophical training, Hourdequin found it hard to assess how well the level of detail provided in the book would satisfy more general audiences. It seemed to me as if Borgmann could write another, longer book, with philosophers in mind, that would lay out in greater detail the foundations for a new, more grounded, and yes, more mundane, ethics whether this ethics be one for America or for the world. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:1187-7863
1573-322X
DOI:10.1007/s10806-007-9063-8