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

Anna L. Peterson

Published by University of California Press 2001

Being Human

Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World

Anna L. Peterson

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520926059

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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.

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Peterson Anna L. :

Anna L. Peterson is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Florida and author of Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion: Progressive Catholicism in El Salvador's Civil War (1997) and co-editor of the forthcoming Christianity, Social and and Globalization in the Americas(2001), with Manuel Vasquez and Philip Williams.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Not of the World: Human Exceptionalism in Western Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
3. The Social Construction of Nature and Human Nature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
4. The Relational Self: Asian Views of Nature and Human Nature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
5. Person and Nature in Native American Worldviews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
6. Relationships, Stories, and Feminist Ethics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
7. Evolution, Ecology, and Ethics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
8. In and Of the World: Toward a Chastened Constructionist Anthropology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
9. Different Natures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 298

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Published: May 26, 2001
ISBN: 9780520926059