Ethics for a Small Planet - New Horizons on Population, Consumption, and Ecology (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY Series in Religious Studies
Release date:	1998
First published:	1998
Introduction by:	Rosemary Radford Ruether
Authors:	Daniel C Maguire • Larry L. Rasmussen
Dimensions:	236 x 158 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	151
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-7914-3645-5
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > General
LSN:	0-7914-3645-4
Barcode:	9780791436455

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