A Brief Word on Ethics

ABSTRACT

In this short polemic, I gesture toward a recuperation of ethics in the geohumanities, one that grapples with three matters of concern, namely: the configuration of life; apprenticeship; and value.

在这篇短小的论战中，我向地球人文学科中伦理的休养生息做了一个姿态，这个姿态涉及三个值得关注的问题，即：生命结构;学徒制;价值观.

En esta breve polémica gesticulo en pro de una recuperación de la ética en las geohumanidades, una que luche con tres cuestiones de interés, a saber: la configuración de la vida; el aprendizaje; y el valor.

Key Words:

• ethics
• morals
• value

关键词:

• 伦理
• 道德
• 价值

Palabras clave:

• ética
• moralidad
• valor

Acknowledgments

I am grateful to Tim Cresswell and to two anonymous referees for their instructive and generous comments on an earlier draft. All errors remain my own. Thanks are owed, also, to Sean Fox for a prompt on the matter of sustainability.

Notes

1. An interpolation of Deleuze’s (1992, 255) paean to Spinoza’s ethical expressionism, namely, “[w]hen Spinoza says that we do not even know what a body can do, this is practically a war cry”.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the British Academy [pf140034].

Notes on contributors

Joe Gerlach

JOE GERLACH is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1SS, UK. E-mail: [email protected]. His research interests are centered on nonrepresentational theory.