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" Being human : "
Anna L. Peterson.
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1012679
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b767049
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Peterson, Anna Lisa,1963-
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Being human : : ethics, environment, and our place in the world /\ Anna L. Peterson.
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, ©2001.
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1 online resource (x, 289 pages)
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0520226542
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: 9780520226548
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: 9780520226555
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: 9781282758889
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0520226550
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9780520226555
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-286) and index.
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Introduction -- Not of the world: human exceptionalism in Western tradition -- The social construction of nature and human nature -- The relational self: Asian views of nature and human nature -- Person and nature in native american worldviews -- Relationships, stories, and feminist ethics -- Evolution, ecology, and ethics -- In and of the world: toward a chastened constructionist anthropology -- Different natures.
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This text examines the complex connections among conceptions of human nature, attitudes toward non-human nature, and ethics. Peterson proposes an 'ethical anthropology' that examines how ideas of nature and humanity are bound together in ways that shape the very foundations of cultures.
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Environmental ethics.
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Ethics.
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Éthique de l'environnement.
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Morale.
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Environmental ethics.
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Ethics.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Ethics Moral Philosophy.
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Umweltethik
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Milieuethiek.
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| Dewey Classification
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179/.1
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BJ1012.P454 2001eb
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