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Being Human : Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World /
This text examines the complex connections among conceptions of human nature, attitudes toward non-human nature, and ethics. Peterson proposes an 'ethical anthropology' that examines how ideas of nature and humanity are bound together in ways that shape the very foundations of cultures.
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2001.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction
- Not of the world: human exceptionalism in Western tradition
- The social construction of nature and human nature
- The relational self: Asian views of nature and human nature
- Person and nature in native american worldviews
- Relationships, stories, and feminist ethics
- Evolution, ecology, and ethics
- In and of the world: toward a chastened constructionist anthropology
- Different natures.