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Solar Ethics Paperback – 5 Sep 2000

by Don Cupitt (Author)
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  • Paperback: 80 pages
  • Publisher: SCM Press; Reprint edition (5 Sept. 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0334026180
  • ISBN-13: 978-0334026181
  • Product Dimensions: 14 x 11.4 x 21.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 284,340 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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About the Author

The Revd Don Cupitt is a Life Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His books include Taking Leave of God, The Sea of Faith and Solar Ethics were published by SCM Press and translated into many languages.

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5.0 out of 5 starssolar ethics by Don Cupitt
By Amazon Customer on 29 April 2011
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One of the few works in recent years that gives an ethic worth living by that makes sense of our post-modern world. Forget all this new age, crystals, tree hugging drivel, forget this constant yearning for somewhere over the rainbow, instead learn to live and love the world we actually live in and pour yourselves out joyfully into it - and seek nothing more, therein lies happiness. This is the message we get from Solar Ethics and it is a message if more of us lived by the better our human society will be.
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HASH(0x927cadb4) out of 5 stars A Prose Poem praising the Virtues of Radiant Non-Self-Importance, Non-Attachment and Compassion 10 Nov. 2014
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Reverend Cupitt suggests that a human being has no platonic essence, no identity that makes him uniquely him. Who we are is a constant stream of interactions. Not only at the human level-- Reverend Cupitt says there is nothing permanently existing, anywhere. There is no God. Even the sun is impermanent. No part of you is permanent. You have no soul. What would provide ethics in this situation, where all of existence is empty of identity?

The sun is what it is, because of the light and heat it constantly gives. It gives until it is gone, and that is the meaning and purpose for its being. Since the sun does this, therefore, we should do the same, Since we are nothing but a flow of interactions, a flow of particles, none of which are ours, and we are nothing else, therefore we should be giving, like the sun. This is the logic behind his ethics.

As philosophy, it is not very convincing. As metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, it is very unconvincing. And as ethics, it is very unconvincing. The qualities of non-self-importance, compassion and nonattachment, are still possible if humans, suns and God have permanent essences. The two topics have little to do with each other. There is no need for Reverend Cupitt to claim to know how the universe is without permanent essences, for him to suggest the joy of how we could live our lives.

Still, the book is likable. Perhaps we could accept it as poetry? As an extended prose-poem.

We feel the bounty of the sun and want to do the same. Imagining ourselves like the sun, or a fountain, we may release some of our attachments, and this would do us good. The book is inspiring in its metaphors and symbols. We would be better people, with more fulfillment in our own lives, and be of more service to others, if we could be more like the sun, or a fountain--without attachments, without self-importance.

As a prose-poem, perhaps half of the words in the book could have been cut (the claims), leaving it far more potent to influence us poetically toward radiance.
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