„Auch die Natur wartet auf die Revolution.“

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 742-764
Author(s):  
Philip Hogh
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Central Idea

Abstract In this article, Herbert Marcuse’s nature-ethical considerations, which have to date been scarcely received, are used to develop perspectives on how the nature-ethical gap in contemporary Critical Theory could be closed. The central idea is that nature is tobe recognized as a subject in its own right without needing to anthropomorphize it in the process. The advocatory ethics of nature, which is outlined here, differs from current sustainability and environmental ethics primarily in that it maintains the tension between an anthropocentric and an ecocentric approach and does not resolve it in one direction. Marcuse’s so-called “liberation of nature” is understood as a means for the “liberation of humans”, but the latter can only succeed if the former is also carried out.

Art, Objectivity, and Idea: Bruno Bauer's Critique of Kant and the Theory of Infinite Self-consciousness

2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 52-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Moggach
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social History ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Rigorous Analysis ◽  
Central Idea ◽  
Subsequent Work ◽  
German Translation ◽  
Early Text ◽  
Bruno Bauer

Students of the Hegelian school must acknowledge an abiding debt to Ernst Barnikol. Upon his death in 1968, he left uncompleted a voluminous manuscript on Bruno Bauer, representing over forty years of research. Of this manuscript, conserved at the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, only a fraction has been published, but even this fraction, in its almost six hundred pages, continues to set standards in the field for meticulous scholarship, rigorous analysis, and balanced criticism. Barnikol's interests were primarily theological, though he recognised clearly that Bauer's religious critique was politically motivated. Barnikol also discovered, but did not publish, Bauer's 1829 Latin manuscript on Kant's aesthetics. This text, adjudicated by Hegel and awarded the Prussian royal prize in philosophy, had been deposited among Hegel's correspondence in the archives of the Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. It was first published in 1996, in the original Latin, with German translation and commentary. In referring to his discovery, Barnikol made a substantive claim which must be disputed here, that Bauer's early text remained without influence on his subsequent work. Focusing on Bauer's depiction of art, and on the relation of art and religion as manifestations of spirit, we can trace lines of continuity and development in his thought, from his 1829 manuscript to his writings of 1841-42. The central idea of the early manuscript, a Hegelian conception of the unity of thought and being, is the key to deciphering the complex and elusive meaning of Bauer's critical theory in the Vormdrz.

Hubris to Humility

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oswald J. Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethical Awareness ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
The One ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Attitudes And Behavior

This chapter examines what environmental stewardship hopes to accomplish by putting it into the context of broader anthropocentric and nonanthropocentric ethical considerations. The ethical awareness and non-economic values that humans have for nature plays an important part in shaping human attitudes and behavior: how humanity views and treats life on Earth. The field of nonanthropocentric environmental ethics emerged in response to a desire for greater humility in human engagement with nature. The chapter considers how nonanthropocentric ethics are expressed in society, citing as an example the animal rights and animal welfare movement. It also discusses environmental stewardship as an emerging ethic that is intermediate between anthropocentrism on the one hand, and ecocentrism on the other. Finally, it reflects on what will happen when humans heavily exploit or damage ecosystems.

scholarly journals Es hora de reflexionar sobre lo que hacemos. Bioética, ambiente y pandemia

Pelícano ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 077-092
Author(s):  
Mónica Heinzmann
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Development Models ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Common

It’s Time to Reflect on What We Do. Bioethics, Environment and PandemicResumen Desde sus orígenes la bioética fue concebida como ciencia de la supervivencia. Sus aportes recobran vigencia ante la situación pandémica y de crisis civilizatoria que cuestiona nuestros modelos de producción y desarrollo Nos proponemos un breve recorrido por las diversas vertientes actuales, desde la ética ambiental, la ecoética, la bioética ecológica y la Bioética fundada en los derechos humanos y algunas consideraciones éticas acerca de la situación ambiental odierna. Desde allí nos parece oportuno destacar algunos aspectos, tal vez poco considerados, y que cobran relevancia en este presente de transiciones y cambios, como son la revisión del enfoque tradicional de la salud a su valor como bien social y comunitario, la discusión y aportes acerca del bien común y los bienes comunes y de la Justicia ambiental que urge incorporar en los procesos productivos, en la economía y la política.Abstract From its beginning, Bioethics was conceived as a science of survival. Their contributions regain validity in the face of the pandemic situation and the crisis of civilization that questions our production and development models. We propose a brief review of the various current aspects, from environmental ethics, eco-ethics, ecological bioethics, human rights based bioehics, and some ethical considerations about the environmental situation or human beings. From there, it seems appropriate to highlight some aspects, perhaps little considered, and that become relevant in this moment of transitions and changes, such as the review of the traditional approach to health, to its value as a social and community good, the discussion and contributions about of the common good and the common goods, and of the environmental justice that it is urgent to incorporate in the productive system, as well as in economy and politics. Key words: Environmental Bioethics, Community Health, Common Goods, Environmental Justice.

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