Moral habitat : ethos and agency for the sake of earth / Nancie Erhard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erhard, Nancie, 1957-

Series:

SUNY series on religion and the environment.

SUNY series on religion and the environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental ethics.

Environmental responsibility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (155 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Moral Habitat explores how our moral imaginations and moral norms have been shaped by and even cocreated with Earth in diverse biotic communities. Weaving together science and religion with indigenous and womanist traditions, Nancie Erhard uses examples from a variety of sources, including post-Cartesian science, the Old Testament, and the Mi´kmaq tribe of Eastern Canada. She demonstrates how each portrays the agency—including the moral agency—of the natural world. From this cross-cultural approach, she recasts the question of how we conceive of humans as moral agents. While written for "the sake of Earth," this thought-provoking book goes well beyond the issue of ecology to show the contribution that such an approach can make to pluralist ethics on a range of timely social issues.

Contents:

Ethos as moral habitat

The great community of persons

Agents of and respondents to God

The continuum

Reconsidering human moral agency

Doing ethics in a moral habitat.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-141) and index.

ISBN:

9780791479858

0791479854

9781435600195

1435600193

OCLC:

173487415