Sustainability is not a fact to be read off from ecosystems, but an evaluative framework shaped by human judgements about what should be sustained, for whom, and at what cost. Posthuman and more-than-human approaches, which seek to decentre the human by foregrounding ecological interdependence and the agency of nonhuman actors, offer an important corrective to crude anthropocentrism, but they risk obscuring human normative agency when decentring the human is treated as sustainability’s self-evident direction. This commentary argues that sustainability cannot and should not escape its human normative centre, and proposes ecologically informed humanism, a position that keeps this centre explicit while holding it ethically, politically, and ecologically accountable. Implications follow for sustainability research, governance, and education.
Growing alarm over the harm done by humans to the natural world, and even to the viability of our own industrial civilization, compels us to ask the deeper moral question: What should be the human relationship to nature? Matthew R. Foster starts by assessing three contrasting patterns of moral reasoning: the Progress E...
If the natural environment is in the precarious state to which many attest, what would this demand of us? What duties are suggested by the observation that our collective behavior threatens the planet, even if no particular individual intends harm? Can we legitimately ask those who sincerely hold little or no interest...
Abstract. This paper contends that contemporary sustainability largely functions as a self-stabilizing adjustment within the very metaphysical architecture that produced ecological and social breakdown. Framed by Western modernity’s anthropocentrism, instrumental rationality, and a teleology of linear progress, sustain...
Essam Hallak· Materials Research Proceedin...· 0 citations
Solidarity has long been recognized as a powerful force for mobilizing collective action in public health, social justice, and political movements. Yet, despite its growing prominence, solidarity remains largely framed in anthropocentric terms, centered on relationships among humans. This framing is increasingly be...
Ashish Giri, C. Atuire, E. Nouvet et al.· Public Humanities· 0 citations
The modern world is marked by a paradox. The values that once defined its normative horizon, such as human dignity, autonomy, critical rationality, and the moral equality of all people, are increasingly invoked as universal achievements, yet they are simultaneously challenged, hollowed out, and strategically instrume...
Jana S. Rošker· Asian Studies· 0 citations
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