Valeurs éthiques du concept de ville lente
Ethical values of the slow city concept

Author(s): Marius-Octavian Munteanu
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Ontology
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: cittàslow; ethos; branding; slow; ethical values;
Summary/Abstract: This article aims to highlight the ethical values of the concept of the slow city, values which are underpinned by digital discourse (official websites of the cities being members of this movement). A rhetorical construction, but above all, a social reconstruction of the image of the contemporary city in accordance with the values and aspirations of the human being seen as imago mundi, the image of the social community to which he belongs. A reconstruction that has at its heart a fundamental coordinate of the human being and of the anthropic space - Time, an essential value that has been hijacked and has become a stressful, anxiety-provoking and spiritually corrosive factor in the contemporary urban universe. We will base our discursive analysis on pre-existing theoretical constructs - the concepts of individual ethos, prior and discursively constructed ethos, collective ethos - and, above all, the analyzed key concept of the slow city - a contemporary urban ontology circumscribed to environmental concerns, sustainable development, participatory democracy, the revaluation of the local economy to the detriment of the global one.

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