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The human standing in nature: storied fitness in the moral overseer

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorThe Applied Philosophy Program, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T04:29:31Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T04:29:31Z
dc.date.issued1986
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (page 101).
dc.description.abstractHumans 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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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, III, The Human Standing in Nature: Storied Fitness in the Moral Overseer, Sumner, Wayne, Donald Callen and Thomas W. Attig, eds., Values and Moral Standing. Bowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy, 8: 90-101. Bowling Green, OH: The Applied Philosophy Program, 1986.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/37198
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles
dc.rights©1986 The Applied Philosophy Program.
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dc.subjectecosystems
dc.subjectenvironmental ethics
dc.subjecthumans
dc.subjectfitness
dc.subjectmorality
dc.subjectbiology
dc.subjectethics
dc.subjectbehavior
dc.titleThe human standing in nature: storied fitness in the moral overseer
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