Being-in-Creation: Human Responsibility in an Endangered World (Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology)

By: Bruce Ellis Benson and Norman Wirzba

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Synopsis: What is the proper relationship between human beings and the more-than-human world? This philosophical question, which underlies vast environmental crises, forces us to investigate the tension between our extraordinary powers, which seem to set us apart from nature, even above it, and our thoroughgoing ordinariness, as revealed by the evolutionary history we share with all life.The contributors to this volume ask us to consider whether the anxiety of unheimlichkeit, which in one form or another absorbed so much of twentieth-century philosophy, might reveal not our homelessness in the cosmos but a need for a fundamental belongingness and implacement in it.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 256 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780823265015
Related ISBNs:: 9780823265008, 9780823264995
Publisher:: Fordham University Press
Date of Addition:: 02/05/25
Copyrighted By:: Fordham University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
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Categories:: Nonfiction, Science, Religion and Spirituality, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy
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