Being Human: Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World - Couverture rigide

Peterson, Anna L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520226542 ISBN 13 : 9780520226548

Editeur : University of California Press, 2001

Synopsis

Being Human examines the complex connections among conceptions of human nature, attitudes toward non-human nature, and ethics. Anna 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. Peterson discusses mainstream Western understandings of what it means to be human, as well as alternatives to these perspectives, and suggests that the construction of a compelling, coherent environmental ethics will revise our ideas not only about nature but also about what it means to be human.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anna L. Peterson is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Florida and author of Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion: Progressive Cathollcism in El Salvador's Civil War (1997).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520226542
• ISBN 13: 9780520226548
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 298
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• Personne responsable: non disponible