An Ethics of NatureCulture and Creation: Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Ethics as a Resource for Ecotheology

This essay first explores the postmodern, ecofeminist ethics emerging from Donna Haraway’s analysis of non-dualistic cyborg reality. It then argues that this perspective has many similarities with and much to teach to ecotheological ethics. I conclude with three ideas which I believe Haraway’s thoug...

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Published in:Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Main Author: O'Brien, Kevin J. 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. 2004
In: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2004, Volume: 9.3, Pages: 295-314
Further subjects:B cyborg reality
B Environmental Ethics
B ecofeminist ethics
B Donna Haraway
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Summary:This essay first explores the postmodern, ecofeminist ethics emerging from Donna Haraway’s analysis of non-dualistic cyborg reality. It then argues that this perspective has many similarities with and much to teach to ecotheological ethics. I conclude with three ideas which I believe Haraway’s thought can contribute to the development of an environmental ethics in the Christian tradition: a clear and importantly complex picture of our world’s particular moral challenges, a modest approach to developing solutions to these challenges, and an emphasis on making explicit the problematic and destructive tendencies of the traditions within which we work
ISSN:1749-4915
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/ecot.9.3.295.59069