Prudence in the Anthropocene

The deliberative judgment referred to in the history of rhetoric as phronesis, practical wisdom, or prudence might have prevented the existential crisis of the Anthropocene era, but it seems unable to reverse the damage or provide a basis for ecological sustainability. This essay offers several cons...

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Abstract The deliberative judgment referred to in the history of rhetoric as phronesis, practical wisdom, or prudence might have prevented the existential crisis of the Anthropocene era, but it seems unable to reverse the damage or provide a basis for ecological sustainability. This essay offers several considerations for adapting this traditional model of judgment to take up the new challenge. The normative, calculative, and performative modalities of prudential thinking, along with insights provided by the Chinese philosopher Xu Changfu, provide a basis for examining political, technocratic, ethical, and artistic mentalities for addressing global warming, assessing their strengths and weaknesses in respect to effective advocacy, and learning from them to improve and expand practical wisdom. Special emphasis is given to paying attention to art, artists, and aesthetic values on behalf of developing an attitude of ecological mindfulness.
AbstractList The deliberative judgment referred to in the history of rhetoric as phronesis, practical wisdom, or prudence might have prevented the existential crisis of the Anthropocene era, but it seems unable to reverse the damage or provide a basis for ecological sustainability. This essay offers several considerations for adapting this traditional model of judgment to take up the new challenge. The normative, calculative, and performative modalities of prudential thinking, along with insights provided by the Chinese philosopher Xu Changfu, provide a basis for examining political, technocratic, ethical, and artistic mentalities for addressing global warming, assessing their strengths and weaknesses in respect to effective advocacy, and learning from them to improve and expand practical wisdom. Special emphasis is given to paying attention to art, artists, and aesthetic values on behalf of developing an attitude of ecological mindfulness.
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29. “‘In nature, there is no way to represent a “whole group” within a single value system,’ Peter continued. ‘Life moves toward diversity, toward resilience. Everything is negotiation, compromise, collaboration.’ On this we agreed. ‘Imagine if instead the requirement of the exercise was to diversify,’ he said, ‘to come up with a thousand solutions to a single problem.’ I could imagine it. In fact, I’ve come to believe it’s exactly what’s required of us” (Wells 2021, 195).
2. The term Anthropocene refers to the period of significant human impact on the geology and ecology of Earth, with particular attention to global warming (see, e.g., Ellis 2018). Although not yet an official label of geological periodization, the term has widespread uptake within the scientific, government, and public domains. Although criticized in academic debates for distributing responsibility while masking culpability (e.g., of capitalism, First World societies, extraction industries, and political interests), it remains superior to proposed alternatives (e.g., Capitalocene, Chthulucene) as a means of public discussion, scientific organization, and collective mobilization. Rejecting these alternatives is a small example of a prudential approach to the crisis.
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– reference: 3. This essay draws directly on the account of prudence that is set out at more length in Hariman (2003, 1–32, 287–321).
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– reference: 4. Even these conventions within the discourse of prudence do not quite capture the intelligence. Eugene Garver zeros in on the problem when he asks “whether one can find principles midway between principles and consequences.” He then distinguishes between an “ethics of principles” and an “ethics of consequences” and between “algorithmic” and “heuristic” thinking in order to situate prudential reasoning between them as a distinctive modality of reason that is “always open to debate and to refutation by practical failure” and, thus, will “always appear a weak kind of reasoning measured against standards of theoretical reason, a frustrating waste of time to hard-headed politicians and scientific technocrats” (1987, 12, 16). Garver sets out to find a distinctive kind of (midway) rules, but they remain elusive. One reason is, I believe, that they cannot be articulated as rules alone rather than as something like scripts in performance. In any case, even prudential conventions that seem to feature only case-based reasoning probably should be seen as somewhat mistaken representations of a more complex process.
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– reference: 15. See also Laudate Deum (Francis 2023), particularly with regard to the critiques of the “growing technocratic paradigm” and the weakness of international politics (¶20). Examples could be provided from other religious and secular traditions. For an early statement by a Protestant theologian, see Nash (1991), which calls for cultivating the “ecological virtues” of sustainability, adaptability, relationality, frugality, equity, solidarity, biodiversity, sufficiency, and humility.
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– reference: 11. This approach is in line with Xu’s observation: “To some extent, the success of the West lies in exercising practical wisdom to maintain a balance of divergent theories and practices” (Xu 2014b). These mentalities are not limited to the West, but my examples reflect how the West has provided strong inflections owing at least to its historical ascension with modernization. One might add, however, that any program for sustainability needs to contain some elements of prudence to be, well, sustainable; those that are radically devoid of prudential adjustment would either die off quickly or become monstrous and, thus, highly consequential for a while, but only that. This perspective applies across the West-and-the-rest distinction (see also Xu 2014a).
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– reference: 6. For a good discussion of the relationship between the ideas of value pluralism in moral philosophy and those in political theory, see Galston (1999). Galston invokes prudence to resolve the friction between liberal universalism and value pluralism but does not develop prudence beyond that. Also relevant are the arguments in Sandel (1982) and Walzer (1983).
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– reference: 19. For example: “No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal change in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions” (Leopold 1949/2020, 198). “[W]e [should] engage in more than environmentalist virtue, political keenness, or useful and necessary activism. We must ground ourselves in the dark of our deepest selves” (Snyder 1990, xi). “How, in our modern world, can we find our way to understand the earth as a gift again, to make our relations with the world sacred again?” (Kimmerer 2013, 31). This orientation is a strong connection with the ethical mentality, especially as articulated by Pope Francis: “In calling to mind the figure of Saint Francis of Assisi, we come to realize that a healthy relationship with creation is one dimension of overall personal conversion, which entails the recognition of our errors, sins, faults and failures, and leads to heartfelt repentance and desire to change. The Australian bishops spoke of the importance of such conversion for achieving reconciliation with creation: ‘To achieve such reconciliation, we must examine our lives and acknowledge the ways in which we have harmed God’s creation through our actions and our failure to act. We need to experience a conversion, or change of heart’” (Francis 2015, ¶153).
– reference: 22. I suggest how the uncanny is an essential part of formal experience and relevant to living amid catastrophe in Hariman (2022).
– reference: ________. 2002b. “Ambrogio Lorenzetti on the Power and Glory of Republics.” In Renaissance Virtues, vol. 2 of Visions of Politics, 93–117. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
– reference: Steiner, Wendy. 2001. Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art. New York: Free Press.
– reference: Dunne, Joseph. 1993. Back to the Rough Ground: “Phronesis” and “Techne” in Modern Philosophy and Aristotle. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
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– reference: Smith, Noah. 2022. “Oxfam Serves up a Lot of Dodgy Statistics.”Noahpinion, June 15. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/oxfam-serves-up-a-lot-of-dodgy-statistics.
– reference: 20. I lay out this argument with an example from American politics in Hariman (2003, 305–12).
– reference: Aristotle. 1985. The Nicomachean Ethics. Translated by TerrenceIrwin. Indianapolis: Hackett.
– reference: Brownstein, Richard. 1974. “Aristotle and the Rhetorical Process.” In Rhetoric: A Tradition in Transition, ed. WalterFisher, 19–33. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.
– reference: 12. An earlier version of the graph reproduced in fig. 1 was released by Oxfam in 2015 and widely reproduced. It has been criticized for distortions, notably by Noah Smith (2022, 2023, 2024). I consider Smith a first-rate, reputable independent analyst providing useful corrections regarding those who err on the side of advocacy, but he slides into hectoring on this one. The 2015 graph did have a lot of problems, not least that it was based on 2007 data, and the 2023 graph (shown in fig. 1) still is simplistic even though it is based on 2019 data. That said, Smith’s critique suffers from dismissive innuendos (“leftists”) rather than assessing the truth of the claim, inattention to the 2015 Oxfam disclaimer about the graph (“Carbon Emissions and Income Inequality” 2015), inattention to bias in some of his own preferred sources, and the fact that his complaints about speculative assumptions and data smoothing apply to many, many, many graphs in economics and especially regarding defenses of the status quo. The current, updated graph was constructed in conjunction with the Swedish Environmental Group and appears in the most current Oxfam report (Climate Equality2023). I am confident that it represents an actual, strong, structural imbalance, even as the causal drivers of global warming are shifting from the United States and Europe to become distributed across a wider swath of nations (Smith 2024). In any case, the two graphs are good examples of the reach of visual data displays on behalf of environmental advocacy.
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– reference: 8. For a review of the classical concept, see Hariman (2001, 199–209). For more on Cicero’s performative prudence, see Hariman (1995, 95–140).
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– reference: 2. The term Anthropocene refers to the period of significant human impact on the geology and ecology of Earth, with particular attention to global warming (see, e.g., Ellis 2018). Although not yet an official label of geological periodization, the term has widespread uptake within the scientific, government, and public domains. Although criticized in academic debates for distributing responsibility while masking culpability (e.g., of capitalism, First World societies, extraction industries, and political interests), it remains superior to proposed alternatives (e.g., Capitalocene, Chthulucene) as a means of public discussion, scientific organization, and collective mobilization. Rejecting these alternatives is a small example of a prudential approach to the crisis.
– reference: 7. The ubiquity of self-interested calculation accounts for the ambiguity and frequent variation in the use of the term prudence, which can mean either thinking in terms of expediency or thinking in terms of expediency plus normative principles.
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– reference: 10. For example, in rhetorical studies, Michael Leff’s Ciceronian humanism featured “a suspicious attitude toward abstract theory not only in respect to rhetoric but also to ethics and politics” (Leff 2012, 214).
– reference: 25. Prudence is derived from the Latin providere, “to see ahead.” For a review of research on prudence as a cognitive modality and an attempt to develop a model consistent with contemporary psychological research, see Kristjánsson, Fowers, Darnell, and Pollard (2021).
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– reference: 14. Plato’s Gorgias 456b is the classical source. For two pertinent examples involving the arts, see the Globaïa website (https://globaia.org) and Maya Lin’s “What Is Missing?” (https://www.whatismissing.org).
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– reference: 29. “‘In nature, there is no way to represent a “whole group” within a single value system,’ Peter continued. ‘Life moves toward diversity, toward resilience. Everything is negotiation, compromise, collaboration.’ On this we agreed. ‘Imagine if instead the requirement of the exercise was to diversify,’ he said, ‘to come up with a thousand solutions to a single problem.’ I could imagine it. In fact, I’ve come to believe it’s exactly what’s required of us” (Wells 2021, 195).
– reference: 5. I use incommensurability according to its common usage in political theory since the term was advanced in Rorty (1989). For detailed discussion of the term that ultimately remains consistent with my usage, see Griffin (1986; see also Larmore 1989). Heidlebaugh (2001) brings various elements of classical rhetoric to bear on the topic.
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– reference: 1. Lois Self summarizes the close relationship between rhetoric and prudence in classical antiquity and the Renaissance: “Rhetoric is an art, phronesis an intellectual virtue; both are special ‘reasoned capacities’ which properly function in the world of probability; both are normative processes in that they involve rational principles of choice-making; both have general applicability but always require careful analysis of particulars in determining the best response to each specific situation; both ideally take into account the wholeness of human nature (rhetoric in its three appeals, phronesis in its balance of desire and reason); and finally, both have social utility and responsibility in that both treat matters of the public good” (1979, 135). Richard Brownstein makes a similar comparison: “[Rhetoric and phronesis] have the same ultimate objective, the prakton agathon; for both this is the product of their first objective, judgment or choice; both deal with the contingent; in both reasoning starts from probabilistic premises, but each is ‘more than a reasoned state’; and both produce their ends by means of deliberation. It is clear that rhetoric externalizes, and makes public and social, the internal and personal characteristics of phronesis” (1974, 23; see also Halliwell 1996). With respect to the twentieth-century academic discipline, a key text that grounded rhetoric in situated judgment is Edwin Black’s Rhetorical Criticism: A Study in Method (1965).
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– reference: 21. For discussions of how decorum was a principle in the public art representing republican governance and in the general influence of rhetoric on all the arts in the Renaissance, see, e.g., Skinner (2002a, 2002b) and van Eck (2007).
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– reference: 26. Morton’s (2018) brief for ecological art has the same philosophical provenance.
– reference: 17. Subsidiarity also is evident in Fratelli Tutti (Francis 2020, ¶¶142, 175, 187).
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– reference: 27. Notably: “Our view is now bi-stable. We must always be ready to move from one view of the world to another. They are always competing with each other. We are learning to live in two worlds at once” (Lanham 2006, 258). Lanham’s immediate context is the digital media environment, but the theme has been present throughout his career and can be applied easily in other contexts open to the history of rhetoric.
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– reference: 23. For an excellent discussion of Western philosophies of beauty and the role beauty can play in collective life, see Dierksmeier (2022).
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