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Being Human
Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World
by Anna Lisa Peterson
ISBN: 0520226542
ISBN-13: 9780520226548
Format: Hardcover
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Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Published date: 2001
Size: 6.25 x 9 inches
Weight: 1.25 pounds
Pages: 289
Publisher's Notes
BEING HUMAN examines the complex connections among conceptions of human nature, attitudes toward nonhuman 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.
Beginning with Western interpretations, Peterson examines the Christian and Enlightenment based attitudes that assume an unbridgeable gap between human and non human aspects of nature. She goes on to explore challenges to these models posed by Asian worldviews; by Native American traditions such as the Navajo and Koyukon cultures; and by feminist ethics concerned with the narrative and relational quality of human and nonhuman nature as well as of ethical theory itself.
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