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.

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.

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.

scholarly journals Human Rights and the Environmental Protection: The Naïveté in Environmental Culture

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Made Adhitya Anggriawan Wisadha ◽  
Grita Anindarini Widyaningsih
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Moral Justification ◽  
Environmental Destruction ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Per Se

There are growing trends in the human rights to substantially extend the values to protect the environment or moreover to welcome the ideas of the rights to environment, not to mention the rights of environment. The purpose is to inclusively embrace the environmental problems wherein the humanity challenges posited on, but this agenda may leave a room of doubt how far the human rights body can address the environmental destruction as it needs the interplay of culture and environmental ethics to promoting such concepts. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the justification of how human rights in the environmental protection in the contemporary discourse are bringing to light, as many current cases attempt to linkage the environmental approach to the human rights instrument, such as the rights to life, healthy environment, and intergenerational equity. To analyse further, the theoretical framework in this paper will be explicated by environmental culture paradigm which illustrates the egalitarian concept between human and environment to elicit the clear thoughts of how human rights is naïve to protect the environment. This article will firstly depict the human rights and the environmental protection discourse and then, explore the naïveté narratives of environmental culture about the ecological crisis roots that are fundamentally anthropogenic, as to reflect the ground realities how this nexus will play out. Finally, this paper found the moral justification per se relies on the effort of elaborating the human prudence in their relationship with nature, albeit bringing the naïveté.

scholarly journals Zaranie, rozwój oraz perspektywy etyki środowiskowej – wybrane zagadnienia

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-71
Author(s):  
Anna Marek-Bieniasz
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Developmental Trends ◽  
Further Development ◽  
The Way

The article is an attempt at presenting some aspects of the development of environmental ethics, i.e. the situation in which this discipline evolved, which is referred to as the ecological crisis. It presents the way in which this discipline was understood by its first representatives, their demands concerning both the ways in which it should be funded, and its further theoretical development. At the same time, the process of penetration of Albert Schweitzer's ethics of respect for life into the reflections of environmental ethicists is discussed. The author compares such ethics with the ethics of the most famous representative of this discipline in Poland, i.e. Henryk Skolimowski. The article also reveals some of the developmental trends of environmental ethics and lists its representatives. It also discusses the theses and assumptions of biocentric environmental ethics and draws attention to the prospects and the need for further development of this discipline.

RACHEL CARSON'S ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Cafaro
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Rachel Carson ◽  
Silent Spring ◽  
The Way

AbstractRachel Carson is well known as a founder of the modern environmental movement. This article argues that her life and writings have much to offer contemporary environmental philosophy. I begin by discussing the environmental ethics articulated in Silent Spring. I next examine Carson's earlier natural history writings and the non-anthropocentrism they express. I conclude with some suggestions for how Carson points the way forward for environmental ethics.

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.

Watsuji Tetsurō

2017 ◽  
pp. 502-522
Author(s):  
Erin McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Being And Time ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Kyoto School ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Nishida Kitaro

Watsuji Tetsurō (1889–1960) was a contemporary of the Kyoto School of Japanese philosophy’s founder Nishida Kitarō (1870–1945). In his first major philosophical work, Fūdo or Climate and Culture, written partly in response to Heidegger’s Being and Time, Watsuji develops the idea of fūdo or milieu (often translated into English as “climate”). This lays the groundwork for his concept of ethics and self as ningen, the focus of his later work. Watsuji encourages us to think about our place in the network of relationships comprising our world. This chapter argues that this network of interdependence is stressed throughout Watsuji’s philosophy. It discusses his suggestion that we are all embedded in a network of relationships from the moment we are born—not just human relationships, but also relationships with our planet. It also demonstrates how Watsuji’s philosophy of what he calls “betweenness” (aidagara) is relevant today for thinking about environmental ethics.

KEBERPIHAKAN MEDIA TERHADAP ISU PELESTARIAN LINGKUNGAN HIDUP

Jurnal KATA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Febrina Zulmi
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Text Structure ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Environmental Preservation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Way

<p><em>Media bias will always be an interesting topic to be examined. Media plays some important roles in society. One of its roles is building public opinions. In this case, media has been assumed to be biased as it might take some advantages from its position. This study aims at investigating The Jakarta Post’s bias towards the environmental preservation issues (an ecolinguistic study). The method used in this study is qualitative descriptive method by applying Van Dijk’s model of critical discourse analysis. This research model does not only analyze the aspect of text structure but also social cognition and social context. The object for this study is the news texts taken from The Jakarta Post Online. The result of the study showed that The Jakarta Post showed its bias towards environmental preservation issues by positioning itself as a pro’s side . In the text structure level, its bias can be identified with the way it chose the theme, topics, schemes and lexical choices which were in accordance with environmental ethics principles. In the social cognition level, its bias can be identified with the nature of the knowledge involved in showing its position in accordance with environmental preservation mission. In the social context level, its bias can be identified with the social values reflected from the news and certain group domination involved in the Jakarta Post’s news report which was in accordance with pro-environmental preservation. Generally, The Jakarta Post showed its progressive attitude or tendency to the change by intensely discussing environmental issues which implied the ideas of improving the way people should preserve their environment.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Keberpihakan media akan selalu menjadi bahan yang menarik untuk diteliti. Media memainkan peran penting dalam masyarakat. Salah satu peran media adalah membangun opini publik. Dalam hal ini, media telah diasumsikan memiliki keberpihakan karena media dapat mengambil keuntungan dari posisinya tersebut. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat keberpihakan The Jakarta Post terhadap isu pelestarian lingkungan hidup (sebuah kajian ekolinguistik). Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif kualitatif dengan menggunakan analisis wacana kritis model Van Dijk. Model penelitian ini tidak hanya menganalisis aspek struktur teks, melainkan juga kognisi sosial dan konteks sosial. Objek penelitian ini adalah teks berita yang diambil dari media berita online The Jakarta Post. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa The Jakarta Post menunjukkan keberpihakannya terhadap isu pelestarian lingkungan hidup dengan meposisikan dirinya sebagai pihak yang mendukung. Dalam tataran struktur teks, keberpihakannya dapat diidentifikasi dari tema, topik, skema wacana dan pilihan kata yang digunakan yang sesuai dengan prinsip-prinsip etika lingkungan. Dalam tataran kognisi sosial, keberpihakannya dapat diidentifikasi dari sifat pengetahuan yang dilibatkan yang menunjukkan posisinya yang sejalan dengan misi pelestarian lingkungan hidup. Dalam tataran konteks sosial, keberpihakannya dapat diidentifikasi dari nilai-nilai sosial yang tercermin dari berita dan dominasi kelompok yang dilibatkan dalam pelaporan berita yang ditulis The Jakarta Post yang berada pada posisi pro-pelestarian lingkungan hidup. Secara umum, The Jakarta Post menunjukkan sikap progresif atau cenderung kepada perubahan dengan mengulas secara intens isu-isu pelestarian lingkungan hidup yang secara tersirat menyarankan perlu adanya peningkatan terhadap upaya-upaya pelestarian lingkungan hidup.</em><em></em></p>

scholarly journals Territorial Marketing as an Element Boosting the Development of a Commune

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Renigier-Biłozor ◽  
Andrzej Biłozor
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Location Factors ◽  
Territorial Marketing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fierce Competition ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Marketing Approach ◽  
The Way

Abstract Recently, it has become popular to streamline the way of managing territorial units by adapting the marketing approach to a territorial dimension. The majority of cities and communes in Poland have realized that, in order to achieve their set goals under conditions of fierce competition for limited resources, it is necessary to introduce territorial marketing as one of the key and significant own tasks to be implemented. The objective of the article is to develop principles of the effective use and management of the area of a commune by carrying out suitable marketing projects, based on an analysis of the social, economic and geopolitical situation of the commune, with particular emphasis placed on location factors.

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