The Human Animal: Why We Still Don't Fit into Nature - Couverture rigide

Gabriel, Markus

 
9781509558032: The Human Animal: Why We Still Don't Fit into Nature
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ISBN 10 : 1509558039 ISBN 13 : 9781509558032
Editeur : Polity Press, 2024

Synopsis

The climate crisis has forced us to recognize that we are not separate from nature but are part of the natural world on which we depend: human beings are animals and we must understand much better our place in nature and our impact on our environment if we are to avoid our own annihilation as a species. And yet we feel nevertheless that we do not entirely fit into nature, that we stand apart from other animals in some way - in what way, exactly?

Markus Gabriel argues that what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans are minded living beings who seek to understand the world and themselves and who possess ethical insight into moral contexts. Mind is the capacity to lead one's life in the light of a conception of who or what one is. The undeniable difference between us and other animals defines the human condition and places a special responsibility on us to consider our actions in the context of other living beings and our shared habitat. It also calls on us to cultivate an ethics of not-knowing: to recognize that, however much we may seek to understand the world, we will never completely master it. Our grasp of reality, mediated by our animal minds, will always be limited: much is and will remain alien to us, lending itself only to speculation - and to remember this is to stand us in better stead for carving out an existence among the environmental crisis that looms before us all.

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À propos de l?auteur

Markus Gabriel holds the chair for Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Bonn and is also the Director of the International Center for Philosophy in Bonn.

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Éditeur
Polity Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1509558039
ISBN 13 
9781509558032
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
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