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We can live well, even though we don’t have a higher purpose | Psyche Ideas

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is a professor at Carleton University, on unceded Algonquin territory. She is the co-investigator for the AIDS Activist History Project, and author of Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding (2011) and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times (2016). is a professor at Carleton University, on unceded Algonquin territory. She is the co-investigator for the AIDS Activist History Project, and author of Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding (2011) and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times (2016). The novelist and poet Ursula K Le Guin shows we can reject nihilism and naive optimism by practising our collective freedom My friend told me that more than half the students in his environmental ethics class believed that it is inevitable – not just possible or probable, but inevitable – that we would end up in a Mad Max-style dystopia. They confront existential despair. Interestingly, even though they saw dystopia inexorably o

My friend told me that more than half the students in his environmental ethics class believed that it is inevitable – not just possible or probable, but inevitable – that we would end up in a Mad Max-style dystopia. They confront existential despair. Interestingly, even though they saw dystopia inexorably on the horizon, they were not fatalistic. They were taking an environmental ethics class, after all, and thinking together about what could be done. We might share the feeling that all we can do will not be enough, and yet that we must do what we can. But for many of us, thinking about…

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