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The liberation of life : from the cell to the community
- Title
- The liberation of life : from the cell to the community / Charles Birch, John B. Cobb, Jr.
- Author
- Birch, Charles.
- Publication
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Cobb, John B.
- Description
- ix, 353 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This book is about the liberation of the concept of life from the bondage fashioned by the interpreters of life ever since biology began, and about the liberation of the life of humans and non-humans alike from the bondage of social structures and behaviour, which now threatens the fullness of life's possibilities if not survival itself. It falls into a tradition of writings about human problems from a perspective informed by biology. It rejects the mechanistic model of life dominant in the Western world and develops an alternative 'ecological model' which is applicable to the life of the cell and the life of the human community. For the first time it brings together in one work the insights of modern biology with those of a modern holistic philosophy and a liberal theology in a way which challenges conventional approaches to science, agriculture, sociology, politics, economics, development and liberation movements"--Publisher description.
- Subject
- Biology > Philosophy
- Bioethics
- Ecology > Philosophy
- Ecology > Moral and ethical aspects
- Human ecology > Philosophy
- Environmental ethics
- Life
- Ecology
- Biological models
- Ecology
- Ethics
- Models, Biological
- Life
- ecology
- vitas (biographies)
- 11.62 Christian ethics
- Biological models
- Bioethics
- Biology > Philosophy
- Ecology > Moral and ethical aspects
- Ecology > Philosophy
- Environmental ethics
- Human ecology > Philosophy
- Mensch
- Philosophie
- Umwelt
- Ökologische Philosophie
- Leven
- Ecologie
- Ethiek
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [332]-343.
- Contents
- Molecular, organismic, and population ecology -- Evolution -- Models of the living -- The human and the natural -- An ethic of life -- Faith in life -- The biological manipulation of human life -- A just and sustainable world -- Economic development in ecological perspective -- Rural and urban development in ecological perspective.
- ISBN
- 0521237874
- 9780521237871
- LCCN
- 80042156
- OCLC
- ocm08123246
- 8123246
- SCSB-615818
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library