When you buy a used copy YOU SAVE
Carbon Dioxide
1.47Kg of CO2
Water
184 litre(s) of Water
Tree
0.011 Tree(s)
donate
1 book donated to global literacy projects

Living With Honour – A Pagan Ethics

4.04 ( 135 Ratings by Goodreads)
Living With Honour – A Pagan Ethics

Living With Honour – A Pagan Ethics

(Author)
4.04 (135 Ratings by Goodreads)
paperback
Published: 25 April, 2008
Standard worldwide delivery by Fri, July 17 - Wed, July 22
Order within 0
Promo Badge
Condition: USED
$12.40
RRP $15.88
You save $3.48 (22%)
Price includes shipping
Available 2 in stock
- +
Add to basket Wishlist This
FREE Returns within 30 days
More Details

Popular Books by Emma Restall Orr

View All Books by Emma Restall Orr
Kissing the Hag
Kissing the Hag
Emma Restall Orr
$20.09
New
Add to basket
Wakeful World, The – Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature
Wakeful World, The – Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature
Emma Restall Orr
$18.33
New
Add to basket
Living Druidry
Living Druidry
Emma Restall Orr
$12.12 $22.50
Used
Add to basket
Thorsons First Directions – Druidry (Thorsons First Directions S.)
Thorsons First Directions – Druidry (Thorsons First Directions S.)
Emma Restall Orr
$7.83 $7.93
Used
Add to basket
The Apple and the Thorn
The Apple and the Thorn
Emma Restall Orr
$12.85 $18.48
Used
Add to basket
The Apple and the Thorn
The Apple and the Thorn
Emma Restall Orr
$24.09
New
Add to basket
The Apple and the Thorn Tenth Anniversary Edition
The Apple and the Thorn Tenth Anniversary Edition
Emma Restall Orr
$25.59
New
Add to basket
Spirits of the Sacred Grove : The World of a Druid Priestess
Spirits of the Sacred Grove : The World of a Druid Priestess
Emma Restall Orr
$8.56 $13.23
Used
Add to basket
Pagan Visions for a Sustainable Future
Pagan Visions for a Sustainable Future
Emma Restall Orr
$18.78 $23.18
Used
Add to basket

Description

"Living With Honour" is a provocative and uncompromising exploration of how Paganism can provide the philosophical guidance to live honourably in a twenty-first Western society. Part One explores the history of Paganism, its undercurrents of anarchy, heresy, environmentalism and animism, finding its place within the history of Western philosophy. Questioning the morality of some reaches of modern Paganism, it presents a context of nature-based animistic Paganism, and proffers a contemporary understanding of honour.Part Two addresses key moral issues from that animistic perspective, beginning with the foundation of human relationships and attitudes towards the Other. It considers how these play out in our practical relationships with friends, colleagues, children and those with whom we have an intimate bond, including the love affair, commitment and polyamory. Exploring how we value life, it looks first at human life, dying, suicide and euthanasia, birth, abortion and IVF. It then examines the human abuse of nonhuman animals, discussing sentience, personhood and inherent value. Considering the environment, it explores the worldview of nature as a resource, and presents an animistic understanding of nature's sanctity, and how sustainable relationship can be achieved. Finally, it focuses on current global crises, exploring need as opposed to desire. While ethics may be agreed, willingness to compromise desire for ethics is less easy.Part Three explores the factors that hinder ethical action, allowing careless passivity: fear, habit, a sense of impotence and a disconnection from the environment. It considers free will and the powerful fuel of deep inspiration. This is the first book to give an account of ethics from a pagan viewpoint for the modern world.
See more

More Details

Type Book
ISBN13 9781846940941
ISBN10 184694094X
Number Of Pages 368
Item Weight 412 g
Product Dimensions 141 x 214 x 21 mm
Publisher / Reseller Collective Ink
Format paperback
See More +

Media Reviews

This is an excellent pioneering work, erudite, courageous and imaginative, that provides a new kind of ethics, linked to a newly appeared complex of religions, which are founded on some very old human truths. Professor Ronald Hutton, world expert on paganism and author of The Triumph of the Moon and many other titlesThis is a lively, sensible and careful attempt to make sense of some very confusing, and yet important, areas of modern thought. I particularly like the clear style and the attention that the author gives to parts of the historical background which are usually misunderstood. I think the book should interest a wide audience. Mary Midgley, philosopher, author of Science as Salvation and many other works

Show more

GoodReads Reviews

Author's Bio

Emma Restall Orr (aka Bobcat) is considered one of the most well-known Druids worldwide. She worked for the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids, was Joint Chief of the British Druid Order, and in 2002 created The Druid Network. In 2004, she founded Honouring the Ancient Dead, which advocates with heritage organisations around the issue of ancient and Pagan British human remains. She is a practising priest and teacher, and regularly lectures at universities and within the Pagan community.

Show more