Sentences with phrase «nonhuman creatures»

One of her ongoing interests concerns the ways that humans represent and act upon the animal world, and the autonomy of nonhuman creatures in spite of these attempts to enculturate them.

We also find a kindred spirit in some of the prophets, where the faithful obedience of nonhuman creatures to the divine will is contrasted with the faithfulness and perversity of men: «Even the stork in the heavens knows her times; and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming; but my people know not the ordinance of the Lord» (Jer 8:7).

Nonhuman creatures are merely props, having no value other than their value to us; intrinsic value resides in humans alone.

Eco-justice is defined as the well - being of all humankind on a thriving earth respectful of the integrity of natural systems and of worth of nonhuman creatures (Hessel).

We may say either that economics should aim at the health of community understood to include both human and nonhuman creatures or that it should aim at the health of human community in its natural environment.

A surprising number of scriptural passages describe God in terms of nonhuman creatures.

The result is that dualism gives way to a monism in which the integrity of nonhuman creatures is denied or disappears from view altogether.

Asking what sorts of value nonhuman creatures might have, Warren writes: «The environmentalists» answer is that they are valuable as organic parts of the natural whole.»

Some proponents of the land ethic — Callicott, for example — are suspicious of ethical preoccupations with individual nonhuman creatures.

But corporations are not established to serve future generations or nonhuman creatures.

And these nonhuman creatures, sheep and lilies and birds, are always represented as worthy of, or as flourishing within, the love and the care of God.

Not exact matches

There is intrinsic value, or richness of experience, in every living creature, human or nonhuman.

We should seek to be neighbor to nonhumans in a way analogous to the way we seek to be neighbor to our human fellow creatures: to succor those who fall by the wayside and to try to remove the causes of suffering and to provide a room in the inn.

This misalignment, if you will, means that either chimpanzees (and gorillas, dolphins, whales — other creatures the NRP has in its sights) will need human agents, with all the dangers of projection of human needs and desires on to their nonhuman «clients», or that law itself would have to change into something... other, something capable of bridging species, a rather daunting proposition.