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Nature, God, and humanity : envisioning an ethics of nature /
Nature, God and Humanity weaves together philosophical, scientific, religious and cultural considerations to show why non-human animals and nature in general are proper objects of moral concern and how our well-being depends on harmony with nature-as-created.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Ethics of Nature
- Moral concerns
- Posing the question
- Why people matter
- Selves and sentients
- Biotic egalitarianism
- Moral principles
- Living with moral indeterminacy
- Humane holism
- All creatures great and small
- Autopoiesis
- Species and ecosystems
- Envisioning a holistic ethics of nature
- The inherent value of wild nature
- Mother nature
- Humane holism
- Ecological wisdom: a methodological interlude
- Unresolved questions
- The case for animal awareness
- Scientific inquiry
- The end of nature
- Fuzzy science
- Thinking like a mountain
- Faith and reason
- The Wild God
- Religious faith
- Religious naturalism
- Theism
- The reasonableness of faith
- Theological reflection
- Theistic naturalism
- The radical Otherness of God
- A free act
- A constitutive act
- An eschatological act
- A conversational act
- A self-limiting act
- A vulnerable act
- A loving act
- A trusting act
- A faithful act
- The Body of Humanity
- Human nature and good
- The body of humanity
- Speaking for God
- Human nature
- Culture-as-nature
- Human good
- Moral respect and normative authority
- Why culture matters to an ethics of nature
- The fellowship of creation
- The big hug
- Human dominion and the fellowship of creation
- Toward a theistic ethics of nature
- Predation in the wild
- Human predation
- The politics of nature.