Description Americans increasingly cite moral values as a factor in how they vote, but when we define morality simply in terms of a voter\'s position on gay marriage and abortion, we lose sight of the ethical decisions that guide our Everyday lives.
Peterson is professor of religion at the University of Florida and the author of Being Human: Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World and Seeds of the Kingdom: Utopian Communities in the Americas..
About the Author Anna L.
In redefining the parameters of morality, Peterson enables us to make fundamental problems such as the distribution of wealth, the use of public land and natural resources, labor and employment policy, and the character of political institutions the preferred focus of debate and action.
Everyday Ethics point toward a more just, humane, and sustainable society, and to acknowledge moments of grace in our daily encounters is to realize a different way of relating to people and nonhuman nature--an alternative ethic to cynicism and rank consumerism.
Even if our interactions with others are fleeting and fragmentary, they provide a viable alternative to the contractual and atomistic attitudes of mainstream culture.
Peterson begins by divining a "second language" for personal and political values, a vocabulary derived from the loving and mutually beneficial relationships of daily life.
Peterson argues, helps us move past the seemingly irreconcilable conflicts of culture and refocus on issues that affect real Social change.
Recognizing these Everyday ethics, Anna L.
In our encounters with friends, family members, nature, and nonhuman creatures, we practice a nonutilitarian morality that makes sacrifice a rational and reasonable choice.
Description Americans increasingly cite moral values as a factor in how they vote, but when we define morality simply in terms of a voter\'s position on gay marriage and abortion, we lose sight of the ethical decisions that guide our Everyday lives
