The Embers and the Stars

The Embers and the Stars
by Erazim Kohak

The Embers and the Stars
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Author: Erazim Kohak
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1987-11-15
ISBN: 0226450171
Number of pages: 284
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

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Book Review: Combatting an Antropocentric POV
Summary: 5 Stars

Erazim Kohak's work will leave one astounded and challenged. Astounded in the sense that what one encounters is not another moral sense granted by human decision. No. Instead what the reader encounters is a stauch challenged issued by someone who has lived it, and survived. What they have lived is a life in which they were open to creation and they were aware of the profound affect of being in communion with nature. Each reader will be challenged to put aside their anthropocentric point of view and learn what life and, more specifically, morality might look like if nature was what determined morality.

This is a must read for anyone studying environmental ethics, morality, or enjoys Thoreau or Emerson. Though, Kohak goes much deeper than the previous two. Nature is demonstrated in this book not as a retreat, but a place in which we learn. Our resonsibilties are revealed and our flaws exposed. But Nature forgives. There are many lessons to learn and a quick read will not do either the read or Kohak justice. There are times when the material is thick, but one must continue on. For the richness that lies in the pages is too great to be measured. Go forth and conquer!

Summary of The Embers and the Stars

"It is hard to put this profound book into a category. Despite the author's criticisms of Thoreau, it is more like Walden than any other book I have read. . . . The book makes great strides toward bringing the best insights from medieval philosophy and from contemporary environmental ethics together. Anyone interested in both of these areas must read this book."?Daniel A. Dombrowski, The Thomist

"Those who share Kohák's concern to understand nature as other than a mere resource or matter in motion will find his temporally oriented interpretation of nature instructive. It is here in particular that Kohák turns moments of experience to account philosophically, turning what we habitually overlook or avoid into an opportunity and basis for self-knowledge. This is an impassioned attempt to see the vital order of nature and the moral order of our humanity as one."?Ethics

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