The Ecological Ethics of Nordic Children’s Tales

IF 1.1 4区 哲学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Environmental Ethics Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.5840/ENVIROETHICS20215725
Nina Witoszek, M. Mueller
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For decades now, environmental philosophers from Arne Næss to Freya Mathews have dreamt of environmental ethics that “make things happen.” We contend such ethics can be found in Nordic children’s tales—those scriptures of moral guidance, and influential propellers of environmental action. In this essay we discuss the moral-imaginative worlds of fictitious in Nordic children’s tales, choosing some of the most canonical stories of the Nordics as our focal point. We argue the complex and often inconsistent philosophical mediations between human and more-than-human worlds as imagined by Astrid Lindgren, Selma Lagerlöf, Thorbjørn Egner, or Tove Jansson are as viable philosophical works as other, more systematic studies in environmental ethics. Further, we argue that places, or indeed larger geographical regions, animate the moral imagination of the characters who live there, suggesting there is a reciprocal and mutually enhancing relationship between dwelling, thinking, and acting, between being animated and becoming animateur. Indeed, we may speak of this animated and animating, cultural-ecological topos as part of a genuine Nordic Ecosphere. Coruscating in this ecosphere are the sparkles of ‘literary ecological ethics,’ which influence human actions, not as much through analysis, documentation, or argument as through world-making stories, images, and models of environmental heroines.
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北欧童话的生态伦理
几十年来,从Arne Næss到Freya Mathews的环境哲学家一直梦想着“让事情发生”的环境伦理。我们认为这样的伦理可以在北欧儿童的故事中找到——那些道德指导的经典,以及有影响力的环保行动的推动者。在这篇文章中,我们讨论了北欧儿童故事中的虚构的道德-想象世界,选择了一些最典型的北欧故事作为我们的重点。我们认为,Astrid Lindgren、Selma Lagerlöf、thorbjjn ørn Egner或Tove Jansson所设想的人类和超人类世界之间复杂且往往不一致的哲学调解,与其他更系统的环境伦理学研究一样,都是可行的哲学著作。此外,我们认为,地方,或者更大的地理区域,激活了生活在那里的人物的道德想象力,这表明在居住、思考和行动之间,在活跃和成为活跃者之间,存在着一种互惠和相互促进的关系。的确,我们可以把这个生机勃勃、生机勃勃的文化生态主题称为真正的北欧生态圈的一部分。在这个生态圈中闪耀着“文学生态伦理”的光芒,它影响着人类的行为,而不是通过分析、记录或争论,而是通过创造世界的故事、图像和环境女英雄的模型。
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