From South to North and Vice Versa

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-289
Author(s):  
Alicia Irene Bugallo Finnemann
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Academic Interest ◽  
Special Mention

This article focuses on different aspects of the reception and development of Deep Ecology in Argentina, with special mention to its presence in some expressions of the counterculture in the 1980s. A local academic interest on environmental ethics and deep ecology is also referred, considering diverse publications and degree theses of Argentine philosophers. The article further highlights some Naessian spirit in philosopher’s training, especially when it is linked to field environmental philosophy and experimental environmental philosophy study cases. Finally, attention is focused on the contributions of Naess’ deep-ecological hermeneutical thought as his great legacy for today, when facing the dawn of the Anthropocene.

Notes on Miki Kiyoshi’s Anthropological Humanism and Environmental Ethics

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-257
Author(s):  
Dennis Stromback ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Kyoto School ◽  
Environmental Destruction ◽  
The Way

This article argues for the importance of using Miki Kiyoshi’s anthropological humanism as a theoretical resource for confronting the unfolding ecological crisis. What makes Miki’s anthropological humanism valuable towards this end, in particular, is in the way he blends multiple theoretical discourses—particularly Nishida and Marx—which speak to the concerns espoused by Deep Ecology and Marxist approaches to environmental philosophy. Unlike other Kyoto School thinkers deployed in the service of building an environmental ethics in recent years, Miki’s philosophical work offers social-economic alternatives to the problem of capitalism within a non-dual framework that seeks to be non-dogmatic. This article will discuss how Miki’s anthropological humanism can enrich those conversations taking place within the “green” and “red” movements by providing them with insights by which to contest and overcome anthropocentric views of reality and the system of capitalism believed to be responsible for the environmental destruction we see today.

Geoethics: Recent Art Projects by Ying Kit Chan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Kit Chan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
World View ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Study ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Plastic Pollution ◽  
Red Color ◽  
Visual Artist ◽  
Moral Relationship

<p>As a visual artist, I have been engaging in art projects that examine environmental ethics for four decades. I propose to present two of my recent bodies of work at the EGU21 EOS4.2 Geothics Session. The titles of these two series of work are <em>Deep Ecology</em> and <em>Red Alert</em>. <br><br><em>Deep Ecology, </em>developed between 2014 and 2016, is a series of multimedia artwork that examines environmental philosophy from the geocentric rather than anthropocentric world view. This body of work comprises artworks in mediums of drawing, photography, print and installation. <em>Deep Ecology</em> is a philosophical study based on Taoist and Buddhist ideas and addresses the moral relationship between human beings and nature. <br><br><em>Red Alert</em> is a series of artwork produced between 2016 to 2000. This series of artwork critiques the increasing hazardous existence of plastic pollution in our environments. Objects in this series are all made of discarded plastic, including products such as grocery bags, household containers, packaging materials, and debris collected from riverbanks and city streets. The red color symbolizes the final warning, signaling an emergency state of our planet of unprecedented magnitude and scope.</p>

Beyond Anthropocentrism

2011 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 29-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Attfield
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Social Ecology ◽  
Environmental Values ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Good

After the first wave of writings in environmental philosophy in the early 1970s, which were mostly critical of anthropocentrism, a new trend emerged which sought to humanise this subject, and to revive or vindicate anthropocentric stances. Only in this way, it was held, could environmental values become human values, and ecological movements manage to become social ecology. Later writers have detected tacit anthropocentrism lurking even in Deep Ecology, or have defended ‘perspectival anthropocentrism’, as the inevitable methodology of any system of environmental ethics devised by and for the guidance of human beings. Human good, broadly enough conceptualised, is held to be the basis of ethics. Besides, it is sometimes added, non-anthropocentric considerations in any case add nothing to anthropocentric ones, when broadly construed.

Environmental Ethics and Sustainability in Indian Thought

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 55-87
Author(s):  
Rana P. B. Singh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Indian Thought ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Universe

Religion (dharma) plays a vital role in the Hindu (Sanatana) quest for understanding and practicing harmony between nature and humanity that result into the formation of a cosmological awakening, i.e. 'transcending the universe.' The importance and applicability of such new consciousness is a sign in promoting global humanism in the 21st century, where environmental ethics and sustainability are the wheels of making the future more humane and peaceful. Arne Naess, who coined the term 'deep ecology' conceiving humankind as an integral part of its environment, gives credit to Gandhi. Gandhi’s contributions help to re-awaken the human spirit to self-realisation, finally leading to revelation promoting human coexistence with nature sustainably, mostly through re-interpretation of Vedantic thought. Under the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) the ideas of Gandhi are recognised as a path that makes human coexistence stronger, feasible and co-sharedness, sustainable in peace and harmony with nature. This essay presents ecospiritual contextuality and its vitality concerning a sustainable perspective in line with Gandhi's vision and way of life.

scholarly journals Systemowe ujęcie biosfery w etyce Edwarda Goldsmitha

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-115
Author(s):  
Anita Ganowicz-Bączyk
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
The Right ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Moral Respect

Environmental ethics has been intensively developed since the 1970s and is promoted most of all by philosophers and philosophizing naturalists. Various attitudes have been adopted, differing deeply ontologically, anthropologically, and axiologically. In this article, the ethics of Edward Goldsmith are presented. Goldsmith understands the biosphere as a systemic whole, which should be treated with moral respect and responsibility by humankind. In the beginning, the notion of holism is defined and described against the background of biocentric and anthropocentric ethics. Next, the views that inspired Goldsmith’s theory are presented, i.e. A. Naess’ deep ecology, J. Lovelock and L. Margulis Gaia’s hypothesis, the views of E. Odum, W.B. Cannon and C.H. Waddington. Then the main points of biospheric ethics are presented. Finally, Goldsmith’s proposal of mental and civilizational shift is submitted. The biospheric morality, which is supported by religious norms, is explained. This type of morality should allow humankind to achieve the right way of development.

scholarly journals REKONTRUKSI ECORELIGIUS ORANG MELAYU Solusi Penyelamatan Lingkungan

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Husni Thamrin, M.Si
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The People ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Universe

Anthropocentric paradigm has distanced humans from nature, as well as causing the humans themselves become exploitative in attitude and do not really care about the nature. In relation, ecological crisis also can be seen as caused by mechanistic-reductionistic-dualistic of Cartesian science. The perspective of anthropocentric is corrected by biocentrism and ecocentrism ethics, particularly Deep Ecology, to re-look at the nature as an ethical community. The concept of ecoculture is already practiced from the beginning by indigenous or traditional societies in elsewhere. The perspective of the human being as an integral part of the nature, and  the behaviour of full of resposibility, full of respect and care about the sustainability of all life in the universe have become perspectives and behaviours of various traditional people. The majority of local wisdom in the maintenance of the environment is still surviving in the midst of shifting currents waves by a pressure of anthropocentric perspective. There is also in a crisis because a pressure of the  influences of a modernization. While others, drifting and eroding in the modernization and the anthropocentric perspective.In that context, ecoculture, particularly Deep Ecology, support for leaving the anthropocentric perspective, and when a holistic life perspective asks for leaving the anthropocentric perspective, the humans are invited to go back to thelocal wisdom, the old wisdom of the indigenous people. in other words, environmental ethics is to urge and invite the people to go back to the ethics of the indigenous people that are still relevant with the times. The essence of this perspective is back to the nature, back to his true identity as an ecological human in the ecoreligion  perspective.

scholarly journals The Ugency of the Greening of Ethics

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 592
Author(s):  
Anna Malavisi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Effective Practice ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Environmental Situation ◽  
Salient Features

Richard Sylvan, a vanguard in the field of environmental philosophy published a book in 1994 with David Bennett titled The Greening of Ethics. Nearly twenty-five years later, where the environmental situation of our world is even more serious, and where some governments deny the existence and negative effects of human caused climate change, the greening of ethics is even more urgent. In this paper, I revisit Sylvan’s and Bennett’s work arguing that their approach to environmental ethics should be one that is advocated. I consider the most salient features of their approach, how this translates into practice but also offer an analysis as to why some governments have reached an impasse in regard to implementing environmental policies, and why environmental ethics still remains on the margins. In the final section of this paper, I discuss what an effective practice would mean.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Fritsch ◽  
Philippe Lynes ◽  
David Wood
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Hans Jonas

This chapter serves to introduce the reader to eco-deconstruction and the relevance of Derrida’s thought to environmental philosophy more broadly. After situating eco-deconstruction with respect to environmentally-concerned readings of other continental philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, Hans Jonas, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, the editors guide the reader’s navigation through the at times perplexing multiplication of related fields, including eco-criticism, eco-phenomenology, posthumanism, new materialism, and more. These examinations are followed by descriptions of the four sections of the book, “diagnosing the present,” “ecologies,” “nuclear and other biodegradabilities,” and “environmental ethics.”

6. Social and political movements

2018 ◽  
pp. 77-90
Author(s):  
Robin Attfield
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Social Ecology ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Human World

Large contributions have been made to environmental ethics by social and political movements, such as Deep Ecology, ecofeminism, Social Ecology, the Environmental Justice Movement, and Green political movements. ‘Social and political movements’ considers these in turn. Social Ecology and the Environmental Justice Movement serve as correctives to Deep Ecology in foregrounding social structures in which environmental problems are often found. But Deep Ecology and ecofeminism serve as counter-correctives to these movements, with their concern for non-human species, habitats, and ecosystems. Green movements (and Deep Ecology too) emphasize our obligations to future generations and to the non-human world. Tensions can arise between environmentalism and liberalism, but they are not always insuperable.

The Construction of India in Some Recent Environmental Philosophy

1998 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-20
Author(s):  
George Alfred James
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Significant Feature ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Western Discourse ◽  
Indian Thought

AbstractI argue that from its beginning environmental philosophy has held two contrasting views of Eastern thought and of Indian philosophical and religious ideas in particular. Utilising the insights of Edward Said and others I find that these contrasting images are reflective of a duality according to which India has been constituted in Western discourse. I argue that these Western images of India remain a significant feature of writing concerning environmental ethics to the present time. As it appears in some recent scholarship in environmental ethics, this discourse remains an obstacle to an informed appreciation of the significance of Indian thought and of Asian thought more generally for environmental philosophy.

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