Ethics for a Small Planet: New Horizons on Population, Consumption, and Ecology Hardcover - 1998
by Daniel C. Maguire; Larry L. Rasmussen
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Ethics for a Small Planet offers complementary studies by two major social ethicists on these issues. Daniel C. Maguire indicts our male-dominated religions for the problems they have caused for our ecology and reproductive ethics. He raises the controversial questions of whether the very concept of God is a problem and whether Christianity's notions of afterlife and a divinized male have done more harm than good. Larry L. Rasmussen also recognizes that the problems of our planet are largely male-made and rich-dominated. He writes that Europeans packaged a form of earth-unfriendly capitalism and shipped it all over the world with missionary zeal. He ably scans the long history that led to the current manic rush to push the earth beyond its limits, and goes on to suggest moral norms and policy guidelines for sustainable communities and genuinely shared power. Both authors argue that there are positive and renewable moral energies in the world's religions and that unless religion, understood as a response to the sanctity of life, animates our ethical debates, the prospects for the world are grim. The sense of the sacred is presented here as the nucleus of the good and the only force that can bring about the lifestyle changes and power reallocations that are necessary to prevent terracide.
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- Title Ethics for a Small Planet: New Horizons on Population, Consumption, and Ecology
- Author Daniel C. Maguire; Larry L. Rasmussen
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 151
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher State University of New York Press
- Date 1998-01
- ISBN 9780791436455 / 0791436454
- Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.23 x 0.59 in (23.62 x 15.82 x 1.50 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Topical: Ecology
- Library of Congress subjects Social ethics, Environmental ethics
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-9361
- Dewey Decimal Code 241.691
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