| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 267 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-260) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Philosophy of nature.
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Ethics.
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Ethics
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ethics (philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Ethics
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Philosophy of nature
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Naturphilosophie
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Ethik
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Natuur.
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Natuurfilosofie.
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Humaniteit.
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Religieuze aspecten.
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Ethische aspecten.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0511019025 |
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9780511019029 |
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9780511487682 |
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0511487681 |
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9780511045110 |
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0511045115 |
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0511157053 |
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9780511157059 |
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1280419520 |
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9781280419522 |
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1107125251 |
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9781107125254 |
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0511176279 |
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9780511176272 |
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0511329504 |
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9780511329500 |
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9786610419524 |
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6610419523 |
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