Ecologies of Human Flourishing

Informationen zum Autor Donald K. Swearer is Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions and Professor of Religion, Emeritus, at Swarthmore College. Susan Lloyd McGarry is Managing Editor in the Office of Communications at Harvard Divinity School. Lawrence Buell is Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature at Harvard University. Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D., is Kolokotrones University Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Editor-in-Chief of Health and Human Rights: An International Journal . Zusammenfassung In this volume, prominent Buddhist scholar Donald Swearer posits that the future requires a radical shift toward living in recognition of the interdependence of all life forms and the consequent ethic of communality and a life style of moderation or “enoughness” that flows from that recognition, which he calls “an ecology of human flourishing.”

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• Authors: Donald K Swearer, Donald K. Swearer, Donald K. Mcgarry Swearer
• Assisted by: Susan Lloyd McGarry (Editor), McGarry Susan Lloyd (Editor), Donald K. Swearer (Editor), Swearer Donald K. (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.09.2011
• EAN: 9780945454458
• ISBN: 978-0-945454-45-8
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Religions of the World and Ecology; Religions of the World and Eco; Religions of the World and Ecology; Religions of the World & Ecology (HUP); Religions of the World & Ecology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, The environment, Social issues & processes, Science / Environmental Science, Social and ethical issues