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From Antiquity to the Renaissance -- Mercantilism and natural resources -- Pre-classical enlightenment developments -- The physiocrats and the bread riots -- From Adam Smith to classical political economy -- John Stuart Mill and the idea of progress -- Managing nature in the enlightenment -- Ricardo and Malthus on the utilization of nature -- Jean-Baptiste Say and other contemporaries -- John Stuart Mill's attitude toward nature -- Epilogue: from socialism to modernity

1. The ultimate crisis of civilization : why turn to philosophy -- 2. From analytic philosophy to speculative naturalism -- 3. Dialectics : from Marx to Post-Marxism -- 4. The dialectics of speculative naturalism -- 5. Reviving the radical enlightenment through speculative naturalism -- 6. From the radical enlightenment to ecological civilization : creating the future -- Conclusion : ecological civilization and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: How Cognitive Science Changes Ethics1: Reason as Force: The Moral Law Folk Theory2: Metaphoric Morality3: The Metaphoric Basis of Moral Theory4: Beyond Rules5: The Impoverishment of Reason: Our Enlightenment Legacy6: What's Wrong with the Objectivist Self7: The Narrative Context of Self and Action8: Moral Imagination9: Living without Absolutes: Objectivity and the Conditions for Criticism10: Preserving Our Best Enlightenment Moral IdealsNotesIndex

Abstract
After Virtue claims that it is characteristic of contemporary society that its debates are peculiarly unsettlable; that this state of affairs is the result of the failure by the thinkers of the Enlightenment to construct a rational, secular defence of shared moral principles; and that the Aristotelian tradition of the virtues provides the only rationally defensible alternative to post-Enlightenment morality.

Drawing attention to today's epistemic crisis, this article seeks to reflect on the role of adult education in addressing this crisis and thereby fostering our democracies. We argue for the need of developing a new shared epistemic basis, a post-postmodern dialogic epistemology. This article presents three core components for this: (1) universalism and particularism, (2) embracing epistemic humility, and (3) seeking for dialogue and the public use of reason. Starting with recognizing the value of postmodern critiques on the Enlightenment ideas of rational thinking and its practices of rigid categorizations, we update key concepts of Enlightenment thinking, such as the power of judgment, human epistemic fallibility, and public reasoning. The modern value of the Enlightenment lies for us predominantly in the democratic educational project that it started. In this light, we see adult education as a (public) space dedicated to developing epistemic responsibility. ; Drawing attention to today's epistemic crisis, this article seeks to reflect on the role of adult education in addressing this crisis and thereby fostering our democracies. We argue for the need of developing a new shared epistemic basis, a post-postmodern dialogic epistemology. This article presents three core components for this: (1) universalism and particularism, (2) embracing epistemic humility, and (3) seeking for dialogue and the public use of reason. Starting with recognizing the value of postmodern critiques on the Enlightenment ideas of rational thinking and its practices of rigid categorizations, we update key concepts of Enlightenment thinking, such as the power of judgment, human epistemic fallibility, and public reasoning. The modern value of the Enlightenment lies for us predominantly in the democratic educational project that it started. In this light, we see adult education as a (public) space dedicated to developing epistemic responsibility.

The EU's values of transnational peace, cooperation, secularism, rationality, and protection of civil liberties and human rights are amongst the most valuable legacies of the Enlightenment. The European project has weathered several crises in the first third of the 21st century, including a change of political direction in the United Kingdom. Brexit is viewed as a consequence of the UK's flawed electoral system, exposed as susceptible to hijacking by militant and disruptive minorities. The future of European values must be protected from politically unreliable systems such as the UK's FPTP. ; La Unión Europea se fundamenta en la cooperación pacífica entre naciones, así como en la razón, el secularismo y la protección de los derechos humanos y las libertades individuales. Todos ellos son valores propios de la Ilustración. El proyecto europeo ha sufrido varias crisis en el primer tercio del siglo XXI, entre ellas la salida del Reino Unido del club comunitario. El Brexit se explica como una consecuencia de la vulnerabilidad del sistema electoral británico, cuya circunscripción electoral individual por mayoría simple es poco representativa y fácilmente manipulable por minorías militantes y rupturistas. El futuro de los valores europeos debería protegerse de sistemas políticos poco fiables como el first past the post británico