Action, an "Encompassing Ethic" and Academics in the Midst of the Climate Crisis

Autor/in	Plowright, Susan
Titel	Action, an "Encompassing Ethic" and Academics in the Midst of the Climate Crisis
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 48 (2016) 14, S.1442-1451 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Plowright, Susan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1080/00131857.2016.1144166
Schlagwörter	Ethics; Climate; College Faculty; Educational Philosophy; Heuristics; Social Action; Conservation (Environment); Environmental Influences; Political Attitudes; History; Academic Freedom; Natural Disasters; Teacher Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethik; Klima; Fakultät; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Heuristik; Soziales Handeln; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Akademische Freiheit; Natural disaster; Naturkatastrophe; Lehrerverhalten; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	In the midst of a crisis like the climate crisis and calls for "all hands on deck", what do academics, as a microcosm of humanity, see? In Hannah Arendt's terms, an "abyss of freedom" to act or a paralysing "abyss of nothingness"? Some from the academy themselves, including Tamboukou, Apple and Bourdieu, make judgements more akin to the latter and mount arguments to urge action. This paper joins their call and theorises ethical and demonstrably plausible resources as a potentially generative heuristic for political action by academics in the face of "dark times". I develop these resources by initially drawing on Arendt's ethical, but limited, action process. Then, through interpreting and expanding her unfinished theory of judging and echoing Karl Jaspers' concept The Encompassing, I propose the notion of an "encompassing ethic". This ethic, synthesised with Arendt's action process, ameliorates action's limitations and suggests the idea of "encompassing action". The paper concludes by bringing these conceptual resources to life through two inspiring historical examples of such action involving academics. (As Provided).
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