Solar Ethics

by Don Cupitt

Don Cupitt's ethics may seem strange and furious; but he says that this is a religious ethic to fit the truth about the world and our own life as we now understand it.

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Don Cupitt was an English philosopher of religion and scholar of Christian theology. He had been an Anglican priest and a lecturer in the University of Cambridge, though he was better known as a popular writer, broadcaster and commentator. He has been described as a "radical theologian", noted for his ideas about "non-realist" philosophy of religion.

Reviews

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solar living is about self-abandonment and uprooting the traditional way of a single truth. Cupitt makes a point of thoroughly describing the tenets of how to live like the sun burns: outpouring and “self-exteriorizing” in a way that uses expression foremost to complete oneself. An apt metaphor for how a complete human being in search for fulfillment/satisfaction should live: simultaneously living and dying, following their own way, and finding objectivity in *creation.*

I recall someone saying that being “of the universe” is a great way to live rather than regressing into yourself. The message of getting rid of one’s internal “secret world” and embracing the theater of your role in the world is quite similar. Recommended to me by Ronald Long!

[Adam Manning · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of my favourite books of all, ever.