Ethics in the last days of humanity
By: Don Cupitt
Publisher: Polebridge Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Salem, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9781598151701
Subjects: Humanity; Twenty-first century; Eschatology; Forecasts
Description: Ethics in the Last Days of Humanity is not about the science of global warming so much as the absence of a serious ethical and religious response to it. When all existing 'reality' breaks down, ethics can no longer be based on nature or religious law. Cupitt advocates an alternative inspired by the historical Jesus. (Back cover).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-112).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: predictions and prophets of doom; title: Self-critical religion becomes philosophy of life; title: When a world ends, the old morality breaks down; title: Eschatological humanism: the revelation of man at the end of history; title: The second adam; title: Eschatologies, ancient and modern; title: On not going anywhere: learning to live without any supporting narrative; title: The coherence of life and culture; title: After humanity; title: Eschatology, globalized and personalized; title: Beliefs and identities; title: Philosophy at the end of the world; title: Our fall into environmental crisis and our redemption.