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Care on Earth: generating informed concern

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorCambridge University Press, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:46:02Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:46:02Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (pages 243-245).
dc.description.abstractGenerating beings that can care requires much complexity. DNA is best interpreted as a cybernetic process that selects for caring. In spontaneous wild nature, the processes that generate such concern have locally a narrow focus, self-survival of the organism. More inclusively, these processes generate ecosystemic networks in which life is elaborated in richness in biodiversity and biocomplexity, elaborated forms of caring. In humans, this focus is exceeded with more inclusive forms of caring. Such wider vision requires a complex brain that can, with a theory of mind, evaluate others with concern for their integrity. Humans, alone on the planet, can take a transcending overview of the whole--and care for life on Earth. The sciences trace the evolution of such escalating concern, but more complete explanations requires metaphysical and theological perspectives.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, III, Care on Earth: Generating Informed Concern, Davies, Paul and Niels Henrik Gregersen, eds., Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics To Metaphysics, 205-245. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/39368
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles
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dc.subjectevolutionary natural history
dc.subjectscience and religion
dc.subjectcaring
dc.subjectinformation
dc.subjectcybernetics
dc.subjectcomplexity
dc.subjectbiodiversity
dc.subjectbiocomplexity
dc.subjecttheory of mind
dc.subjectteaching
dc.subjectDNA
dc.titleCare on Earth: generating informed concern
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