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The Theoretical Individual - Imagination, Ethics and the Future of Humanity (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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The Theoretical Individual - Imagination, Ethics and the Future of Humanity (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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How can the one influence the many? From posing seminal questions
about what comprises a human individual, to asking whether human
evolution is alive and well, favoring individuals or the species,
this work is a daring, up-to-the-minute overview of an urgent,
multidisciplinary premise. It explores the extent to which human
history provides empirical evidence for the capacity of an
individual to exert meaningful suasion over their species, and
asks: Can an individual influence the survival of the human species
and the planet? If there are to be cultures of transformation
dedicated to seeing us all through the Sixth Extinction Spasm, the
Anthropocene, inflicting as little biological havoc as possible,
what might such orientations-a collective, widespread biophilia, or
reverence for nature-look like? In this powerful work, with a
combination of data and direct observation, the authors invite
readers to explore how such transformations might resonate
throughout the human community; in what ways a person might
overcome the seemingly insurmountable environmental tumult our
species has unleashed; the clear and salient motives, ethics,
aspirations and pragmatic idealism he/she might mirror and embrace
in order to effect a profound difference-at the individual
level-for all of life and life's myriad habitats. Chapters
illuminate an ambitiously broad digest of research from two-dozen
disciplines. Those include ecodynamics, biosemiotics, neural
plasticity, anthropology, paleontology and the history of science,
among others. All converge upon a set of ethics-based scenarios for
mitigating ecological damage to ourselves and other life forms.
This highly readable and tightly woven treatise speaks to
scientists, students and all those who are concerned about ethical
activism and the future of the biosphere. Michael Charles Tobias
and Jane Gray Morrison are ecological philosophers and animal
liberation activists who have worked for decades to help enrich our
understanding of ecosystem dynamics and humanity's ambiguous
presence amid that great orchestra that is nature.
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