Being Alive: A Guide for Human Action
About this ebook
Being Alive: A Guide for Human Action is written by independent philosopher, issue and electoral campaign organizer Phila Back. It portrays all things in the world as living and related, also forming parts of innumerable intersecting and nested whole lives. Humans according to this view have multiple natural identities as individuals, members of communities, citizens and parts of nature. By nature they are driven by desire to act in all these capacities to seek justice for all of creation.
Drawing on modern, Indigenous, ancient Eastern and Western traditions the book derives its position from self-evident facts of experience, offering readers a compelling new way of seeing the world that guides action to save humanity, democracy and the earth.
About the author
Phila Back is an independent philosopher, issue and electoral campaign organizer. Since graduating from Reed College with a B.A. in philosophy she has participated and organized in a wide variety of local, state, national and global campaigns. Her issues have included land use and preservation, water, air, energy, mining, endangered species, public lands, climate, education, fair trade, healthcare and campaign finance reform. In Reading, Pennsylvania she was involved in an anti-poverty commission, revitalization plan committee and community garden project. Currently she is working on protecting and strengthening voting rights.
Back is the author of a series of articles on neoliberalism in The Lehigh Valley Vanguard as well as others published on resilience.org and Kosmos Journal. Her 2021 essay Freedom: A 21st Century Update is at Freedom and her website is philaback.com .
