scholarly journals MyĶlenie relacyjne, inkluzyjne w dobie kryzysu klimatycznego

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
Piotr Skubała ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Relational Thinking ◽  
Average Temperature ◽  
The World ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
The Relationship

Climate change caused by excessive emissions of greenhouse gases is becoming, along with excessive exploitation of the environment, agriculture and urbani-zation, one of the main threats to life on Earth and our civilization. Although we have known about the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and the rise of the average temperature on Earth since end of the 20th century, it was only after nearly 100 years that we took international action to reduce this phenomenon. We are looking at the closing window and the question arises whether we will be able to react and stave oȮ the climate crisis. We know what immediate actions are needed, but we do not take them. It seems that a neces-sary condition for doing the work of repairing the world is a complete change in the way we view the natural world. It must be based on relational thinking, emphasize mutual relationships, the interdependence of man and nature, hu-man beings and non-human beings.

scholarly journals Ecological Perspectives in Linus T. Asong’s No Way to Die

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Danlami Amadou
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Ecological Vision ◽  
The World ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second Wave

Given the environmental crisis plaguing the world, this paper investigates the manner in which Linus Asong represents man’s link with nature in the novel No Way to Die. It attempts to provide an answer to the following question: how does Linus Asong portray the contact between man and nature? The work is based on the premise that the Cameroonian author depicts the relationship between human beings and other elements of the ecosystem with perspectives for improvement for the benefit of both man and nature. Second Wave Ecocriticism, as outlined by Lawrence Buell, is used to bring out novelist’s ecological vision which posits that human beings need to improve their relationship with, or treatment of, other elements of nature so that the rapidly degrading ecosystem is saved. Keywords: Environment, Fiction, Ecocriticism, Degradation, Protection, Vision

scholarly journals Earth-Man Degradation In Corasanti's The Almond Tree: An Eco Critical Study

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (III) ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Iqra Khadam ◽  
Amna Aziz ◽  
Faiza Saeed
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Almond Tree ◽  
The World ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
The Relationship

This article finds out the relationship between nature and human beings. Nature is being damaged by advanced technology as well as by human beings. Glotfelty (1996) presents his idea that it is the relation of living organisms to their environment that bring changes in the surroundings. We have seen the loss of humanity in this age of science and advancement. The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti (2012) is about the conflict between Palestine and Israel. For this purpose, the research is done from Eco Criticism lenses. Both physical and natural world shares close relations. The urgency of examining literature from an ecological point of view has increased due to the present environmental crisis which has swept the globe. This research leads to the conclusion that there must be peace and harmony in the world by being friendly not only with other human beings but with the environment as well.

scholarly journals An Ecocritical Reading of Selected Poems of Muhammad Haji Salleh

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Hamoud Yahya Ahmed ◽  
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Ruzy Suliza Hashim
Keyword(s):  
Physical World ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Significant Feature ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Ecological Consciousness ◽  
The World ◽  
Human World ◽  
Literature And Environment ◽  
The Relationship

Ecocriticism is concerned with the relationship between literature and environment or how the relationships between humans and their physical world are reflected in literature. In this paper, we attempt to analyse selected poems of Muhammad Haji Salleh using some concepts from ecocriticism as an analytical lens. The premise of this paper is based on the poet’s symbiotic relationship which has become a significant feature of his work. Using six of his nature poems to exhibit Muhammad’s idea of mutual relationship between the human world and the natural world of environment, we show the poet’s concern about the slightest interference of human beings into the world of nature which results in the disruption of human-nature relationship. Muhammad Haji Salleh does not limit himself to presenting the brighter and darker side of nature, rather he has gone a step further to reveal the very concept of ecosystem and reflect the blossoming of ecological consciousness in modern Malaysian society. This approach of reading Muhammad Haji Salleh exhibits the current interest in the environment and the ways in which it has to be treated with respect and love. By explicating the intrinsic features of nature in his selected poems, we can inculcate environmental awareness and inspire ecological consciousness among people in Malaysia and elsewhere in the world. Keywords: Ecocriticism, ecosystem, interrelationship, ecological consciousness, poetry and Muhammad Haji Salleh

scholarly journals Ancestral Veda Concepts and Quantum Mechanic as a background of Ayurveda and Modern Medicine

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 79-83
Author(s):  
ALFREDO LAURIA
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanic ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Ayurveda deals with the relationship between communications and forces to be present either in the human beings or in their environment, including the influence either from their family or social and cultural processes. The exchange between man and nature or environment is a whole and dynamic balance. The outcome of this single or unique dialogue can be more or less harmonious; so that the consequence will determine health status:  balanced or imbalanced. This relationship of Communication and Integrated Intelligence plays its role in the microcosm, by the way, in the person itself. In Addition it is being inserted into the world or macrocosm, and it isnamed awareness. I want to quote some examples of this reality that is, actually, unavoidable. In fact, it can not be excluded from the philosophical and practical principles of medicine.

Moral aspects of environmental protection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azad Jafar Jafarov
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Physical Strength ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The World ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Nature Religion ◽  
The Relationship

Environmental protection is considered an important element in most religions. The article is devoted to the philosophical understanding of the problem of the influence of religion on the environment, human behavior and attitude to nature. Religion has always touched upon the problem of the relationship between man and the world around him. In the existing religious traditions, various ideals of the relationship between man and nature have been formed. As a result, the ideological functions of religion acquire special significance. In our time, religions can be a spiritual source for the development and formation of environmental ethics and natural aesthetics. Religious ethics awakens in people a consciousness that is different from material and technological thinking. Religion helps people understand that their control over the living and inanimate world is unlimited and that cruelty towards nature will turn to them. Religion teaches people that the purpose of life is not to maximize consumption. While technology gives man the physical strength to create or destroy the world, religion teaches virtue. Directly or indirectly, religion can be a powerful source of environmental protection. Therefore, we need to use the power of the influence of religion to protect nature. The nature of the influence of religion on the current state and development of society largely depends on the relationship between people of different faiths. The religious consciousness of people developed in the direction of knowledge of the world and its laws, methods of practical use. Some religious ideologies deify human nature and reflect people's responses to their environment. Religion, as a form of social consciousness, has always, in one way or another, taken care of man's relationship with the natural world, traditionally expressed a certain moral and ethical concern for the environment and determined the moral obligations of man in relation to the environment.

scholarly journals Environmental Ethics: Catalyst for Human/ Nature Relationship in “A White Heron”

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-172
Author(s):  
Yashoda Chaulagain
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Natural Domain ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Mother Earth ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

All the life forms have fundamental right to live in this universe. Human beings have duties, rights, and responsibilities towards the non-humans, and natural world. By not having a systematic and comprehensive account regarding the relationship between humans and the natural world, human beings are denying the importance of the life forms of other creatures in the world. Hence, the present research attempts to analyze the biocentric relationship of human beings with nature and its stewardship by being aware and knowledgeable of the world around them and protecting the world species. The study further argues the cooperative mechanism and symbiotic relationship between nature and human beings in this natural domain with reference to Jewett’s protagonist, Sylvia, who represents the symbol of mother earth by saving White Heron from the hunter. She restricts the Hunter to mastery over it. In addition, the work encompasses the conflict of nature with civilization by portraying the relationship of Sylvia, who preserves nature, from a foreigner, the Hunter who is concomitant with the danger of civilization. The Hunter who tracks the White Heron is from the city and hence stained by civilizations, sees nature is a place to exploit and desires the White Heron as another piece of his collection. In this sense, Sylvia represents herself true lover and preserver of the natural world and the Hunter is considered in complete opposition to the tranquility of the woodland.

Our Responsibility to Future Generations

1990 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lothar Gündling
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Ecological Ethic ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Ethical Approaches ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
The Relationship

In recent years, lawyers have begun to join ecologists in debating whether there are—or should be—obligations to protect the interests of future generations. This legal debate was preceded by a philosophical one, dating back to the early 1970s, on the emergence of a new or “ecological” ethic redefining the relationship between man and nature in such a way as to ensure the survival of the human species on earth. The background to the various ethical approaches has been the indisputable fact that humanity has accumulated a monstrous potential to destroy life on earth, and that it is using natural resources and the environment in a way that threatens the survival of future generations—at least, at a standard that we today consider worthy of human beings.

scholarly journals Topography in the Timaeus: Plato and Augustine on mankind's place in the natural world

1988 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 104-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Material World ◽  
Moral Position ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Bull's Eye ◽  
The Relationship

In this paper I shall be considering the relationship between the shape or structure of the world and the moral position occupied by human beings, particularly with regard to man's attitude towards and use of the natural resources of the material world he inhabits.1. The shape of the worldThere are two basic spatial metaphors that we frequently use in analysing notions of value and morality: one is the scale of up and down, with high and low or top and bottom as alternative ways of referring to the same type of hierarchy; the other is the notion of a centre, the bull's eye: if we are self-centred we value ourselves more highly than other things; if we have an anthropocentric view we value humanity above other animals. Thus we usually suppose that we put whatever we value most highly (on the one set of metaphors) at ‘the centre of things’ (on the other set).

A Māori Girl Watches, Listens, and Learns – Coming of Age from an Indigenous Viewpoint: Mauri (Merata Mita, 1988)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fox
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Indigenous Woman ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Force ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines Merata Mita’s Mauri, the first fiction feature film in the world to be solely written and directed by an indigenous woman, as an example of “Fourth Cinema” – that is, a form of filmmaking that aims to create, produce, and transmit the stories of indigenous people, and in their own image – showing how Mita presents the coming-of-age story of a Māori girl who grows into an understanding of the spiritual dimension of the relationship of her people to the natural world, and to the ancestors who have preceded them. The discussion demonstrates how the film adopts storytelling procedures that reflect a distinctively Māori view of time and are designed to signify the presence of the mauri (or life force) in the Māori world.

scholarly journals Management and Economics: Question of Development Goals

Upravlenie ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Толкачев ◽  
P. Tolkachev
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Economic Management ◽  
Common Path ◽  
Fundamental Properties ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Large Groups ◽  
The Relationship

The article discusses the relationship of economic management with the economic basis. The thesis is substantiated that effective economic management depends on economic ideal, to which society will strive to achieve. The world surrounding a person constantly retains its essential fundamental properties. And in this way it is perfect. Man spiritually assumes himself above nature. Potentially, he sees himself as a master of the natural world. However, acting in nature as an independent free force, he constantly reveals his imperfect. Because of his limited knowledge of the infinitely complex nature, everything that a person creates is imperfect. The path to perfection is the natural goal of man’s life on earth. However, on this common path, all nations and their large groups – civilizations – are moving along different roads. And in modern conditions, these differences have reached a dangerous feature – more and more the confrontation of civilizations is emerging. The historical feature of the Russian economic worldview is the absolute priority of moral ideals. Its deep economic ideals are not aggressive in relation to other countries and peoples. These ideals are in finding and multiplying of good. Therefore, potentially, Russia can counteract the negative scenario of the development of civilizational conflicts.

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