Fittingness and Environmental Ethics

<p>This volume focuses on ‘fittingness’ as an ethical-aesthetical idea and in particular examines how the concept is beneficial for environmental ethics. It brings together an innovative set of contributions to argue that fittingness is a significant but under-investigated facet of human ethical deliberation with both ethical and aesthetic dimensions. In widely diverse matters – from architecture to table manners – individuals and communities make decisions based on ‘fittingness’ also expressed in related terms such as appropriateness prudence temperance and mutuality. In the realm of environmental ethics fittingness denotes a relation between conscious embodied persons and their habitats and is of relevance to judgements about how humans shape and take up with the non-human environment and hence to ethical decisions about the development and use of the environment and non-human creatures. As such fittingness can be of great benefit in reframing human relationships to the non-human stimulating a way of living in the world that is fitting to the preservation of its fruitfulness goodness beauty and truth.</p>