"Scattered In Times"
Climate change is a temporally fragmented phenomenon: the causes and effects at work are dispersed over a remarkably long time period. Climate change exceeds human ability to forecast and quantify its effects in time. This creates serious epistemic, moral, and psychological difficulties and poses ch...
| Published in: | Journal of religious ethics |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2020]
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Journal of religious ethics
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Climatic change
/ Effects
/ Time awareness
/ Dilemma
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| RelBib Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics CH Christianity and Society NCD Political ethics NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Augustine
B Climate Change B Imagination B Environmental Ethics B Time B Moral Psychology |
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| Summary: | Climate change is a temporally fragmented phenomenon: the causes and effects at work are dispersed over a remarkably long time period. Climate change exceeds human ability to forecast and quantify its effects in time. This creates serious epistemic, moral, and psychological difficulties and poses challenges to generating adequate ethical responses. Augustine's understanding of time as a measure of imagination emphasizes the way in which human beings actively shape their sense of time. He sees "looking forward" in time as a matter of spiritual vocation that collects the self out of dispersion and connects to a transgenerational collective. A notable example of how this "looking forward" may be practiced is singing the Psalms. The Augustinian "temporal imagination" links the imaginative, affective, moral, and vocational dimensions of measuring time. This offers some preliminary avenues for reimagining a sense of time responsive to climate change's temporal fragmentation. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jore.12303 |