"The Fierce Urgency of Now": The Ecological Legacy of King's Social Ethics

This essay offers a constructive, ecological extension of Martin Luther King Jr.'s social ethics using a phrase from Henry David Thoreau's classic, Walden, that King often used: “improved means to an unimproved end.” King argued that this Thoreauvian theme “summarized” modern life; in part...

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Main Author: Yperen, Nathaniel Van (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Philosophy Documentation Center [2016]
In: Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 36, Issue: 2, Pages: 159-172
RelBib Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBQ North America
NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics
TJ Modern history
VA Philosophy
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