moral ecology

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Editorial synthesis · provisional

Definition

Moral ecology is RB3’s field of practices, habits and institutions through which attention, legitimacy and ethical capacities are sustained or weakened over time. It concerns the reproduction of conditions for responsible action, rather than a code applied outside history. The proposal retains concrete vulnerability, public correction and repair without claiming that interdependence alone guarantees goodness or resolves every conflict.

Explanation

The source extends ethical inquiry from isolated acts toward networks, regimes and infrastructures that make certain responses normal or difficult. Arendtian promising and forgiving help locate answerability across time. This extension does not dissolve individual responsibility or allocate it equally to everyone causally entangled in a harmful arrangement.

The author explicitly develops beyond the Simondonian account toward conditions that stabilize common sense. Enactive ethics keeps situated judgment from being exhaustively determined by general rules. Næss, Bateson and Guattari contribute different ecological emphases, rather than one interchangeable doctrine from which every practical conclusion follows automatically.

Maintenance matters because trust, institutions and practical capacities can erode. The later orientation toward repair, informational integrity and more-than-human compossibility remains a set of axes for judgment and triage, not an exhaustive code. The proposal therefore preserves irreversibility and conflict without promising an eventual conflict-free moral environment.

Scope and attribution

Keep historically maintained ethical conditions distinct from a complete code, guaranteed harmony or equalized responsibility.

AB — The Actual Book

Source-verified occurrence; see the printed-page references below.

Occurrence locators: 174, 176, 177.

RB3 — The Real Book, Volume III: Murmurations

The developed account belongs to RB3 in the cited local scope, with antecedents and qualifications retained.

Occurrence locators: 218, 221, 222, 245, 298.

Background used in the editorial explanation

RB3 p.162 distributes accountability within an assemblage; it is explanatory background, not an independent occurrence of moral ecology.