| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 267 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-260) and indexes. |
| Contents |
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 -- Inherent value of wild nature -- Mother nature -- Humane holism -- Ecological wisdom: a methodological interlude -- Unresolved questions -- Case for animal awareness -- Scientific inquiry -- End of nature -- Fuzzy science -- Thinking like a mountain -- Faith and reason -- Wild God -- Religious faith -- Religious naturalism -- Theism -- Reasonableness of faith -- Theological reflection -- Theistic naturalism -- 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 -- Body of Humanity -- Human nature and good -- 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 -- Fellowship of creation -- Big hug -- Human dominion and the fellowship of creation -- Toward a theistic ethics of nature -- Predation in the wild -- Human predation -- 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophy of nature.
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Philosophy of nature. |
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Ethics.
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Ethics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fern, Richard L. Nature, God, and humanity. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521811228 (DLC) 2001043658 (OCoLC)47930690 |
| ISBN |
0511019025 (electronic book) |
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9780511019029 (electronic book) |
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9780511487682 (electronic book) |
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0511487681 (electronic book) |
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9780511045110 (electronic book) |
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0511045115 (electronic book) |
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0511157053 |
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9780511157059 |
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1280419520 |
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9781280419522 |
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0521009707 (paperback) |
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9780521811224 |
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0521811228 |
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9780521009706 |
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