RESPONSIBLE AGENCY: A HUMAN DISTINCTIVE?: with Eric Priest, Celia Deane‐Drummond, Joseph Henrich, and Mary Meyers, "Introduction to Symposium on 'Just How Special Are Humans?'"; Eric Priest, "Human Uniqueness: Debates in Science and Theology"; Joseph Henrich, "How Culture Made Us Uniquely Human"; Agustín Fuentes, "Distinctively Human? Meaning‐Making and World Shaping as Core Processes of the Human Niche"; Cristine Legare, "The Cumulative Quality of Culture Explains Human Uniqueness"; David Reich, "Human Uniqueness from a Biological Point of View"; Alan Mittleman, "'The Mystery of Human Uniqueness': Common Sense, Science, and Judaism"; Jan‐Olav Henriksen, "Experiencing the World as the Evolved Image of God: Religion in the Context of Science"; Jennifer A. Herdt, "Responsible Agency: A Human Distinctive?"; Celia Deane‐Drummond, "Tracing Distinctive Human Moral Emotions? The Contribution of a Theology of Gratitude"; and John Behr, "Nature Makes an Ascent from the Lower to the Higher: Gregory of Nyssa on Human Distinctiveness

While agent responsibility appears to be one of the clearest examples of a human distinctive, practices of holding responsible are bound up with social expectations and emotional reactions, many of which are shared with other social animals. This essay attends to the ways in which what Peter Strawso...

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Published in:	Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 58; no. 2; pp. 504 - 522
Main Author:	Herdt, Jennifer A.
Format:	Article
Published:	Open Library of Humanities Jun2023
Subjects:	Emotions Image of God Common sense Anscombe, G. E. M. (Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret), 1919-2001 Gregory, of Nyssa, Saint, ca. 335-ca. 394 Gratitude Priests Human-animal relationships
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