The human standing in nature: storied fitness in the moral overseer
Date
1986
Authors
Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
The Applied Philosophy Program, publisher
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Abstract
Humans are the creatures that have evolved a conscience--stand-outs in the system in which they stand. This conscience can wisely direct the magnificent, fearful power of the brain and hand. An environmental ethic tries to maximize conscience in order to maximize fitness in the environment. Humans are worldviewers, with a sense of storied residence. Our role is to live out a spacetime ethic, a placetime ethic. In this ethic, knowledge is power, as also is love. There is a penultimate place for superior human standing, and the ultimate lesson is that the meek inherit the Earth. In this sense too, the fittest survive.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 101).
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Subject
ecosystems
environmental ethics
humans
fitness
morality
biology
ethics
behavior