Moral Habitat: Ethos and Agency for the Sake of Earth

Author:   Nancie Erhard
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9780791471425


Pages:   154
Publication Date:   05 June 2008
Format:   Paperback
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"This is a work of environmental ethics that looks at how ""otherkind"" - and humankind - contributes to our moral imagination."

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Author:   Nancie Erhard
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9780791471425


ISBN 10:   079147142
Pages:   154
Publication Date:   05 June 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Ethos as Moral Habitat 2. ""The Great Community of Persons"" 3. Agents of and Respondents to God 4. The Continuum 5. Reconsidering Human Moral Agency 6. Doing Ethics in a Moral Habitat Notes Bibliography Index"

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Of interest to scholars and advanced students of environmental ethics and religion because of its sustained focus, rigorous scholarship, and numerous insights into how this reworking of our basic orientation may be profitably applied, this book deserves a wide readership. - Studies in Religion ...Erhard has developed the idea of the moral habitat in a promising and creative manner. - Environmental Ethics This is a powerful work that achieves a radical undermining of anthropocentrism. The author's treatment of culture and the many ways it is generated and expressed is excellent. - Daniel C. Maguire, Marquette University


"""Of interest to scholars and advanced students of environmental ethics and religion because of its sustained focus, rigorous scholarship, and numerous insights into how this reworking of our basic orientation may be profitably applied, this book deserves a wide readership."" - Studies in Religion ""...Erhard has developed the idea of the moral habitat in a promising and creative manner."" - Environmental Ethics ""This is a powerful work that achieves a radical undermining of anthropocentrism. The author's treatment of culture and the many ways it is generated and expressed is excellent."" - Daniel C. Maguire, Marquette University"


Author Information

Nancie Erhard is Assistant Professor of Comparative Religious Ethics at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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