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- Title
EMERSONIAN VIRTUES OF THE ANTHROPOCENE: FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE.
- Authors
Dumler‐Winckler, Emily
- Abstract
The natural sciences and religion are two of the primary modern social practices that, for better and worse, shape our relationship to nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson helps us to think about their relation to one another and the virtues needed for the perfection of each. His insights about virtue and the "religious sentiment" shed light on how we moderns might make a home of a world indelibly marked by science, technology, and anthropogenic change. In addition to the quintessentially Emersonian virtue of self‐trust, the virtues of faith, hope, and love are vital for this home‐making endeavor. Emerson, thus, prefigures what prominent environmental ethicists have described as a "turn to virtue in climate ethics," as well as what some see as a return to religious communities, values, and ideals, as the way forward. By guiding readers through Emerson's early work Nature and his late essay "Worship," this article provides an account of these three traditionally theological Emersonian virtues of the Anthropocene.
- Subjects
SPIRITUALITY; EMERSON, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882; ENVIRONMENTAL ethics; RELIGIOUS communities; RELIGION
- Publication
Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, 2018, Vol 53, Issue 4, p971
- ISSN
0591-2385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/zygo.12469