Sentences with phrase «deep ecologists»

"Deep ecologists" refers to a group of people who strongly believe in the importance of nature and its interconnectedness with humans. They advocate for preserving the environment, understanding our place in it, and promoting sustainable practices. Full definition
Furthermore, the proposals of deep ecologists illustrate the far too direct move from a new sensibility to policy recommendations that results from the depreciation of ethical reflection.
Nothing in either volume on deep ecology suggests that this is an appropriate reflection for deep ecologists.
This suggests that the criticism of animal rights advocates may not be as much a matter of shared principle among deep ecologists as I have supposed.
The use of the term intrinsic value by deep ecologists misled us into thinking there was more similarity than may in fact exist.
This lack of interest in the subjective experience of nonhuman animals seems characteristic of other deep ecologists as well.
That in no way minimizes the need for a new sensibility, but it does provide one criterion for evaluating it, a criterion according to which many deep ecologists fall short.
These comments suggest that Naess is personally open to entering ethical discussions in a relatively traditional way, If other deep ecologists follow him, the gap between them and Whiteheadians will narrow Meanwhile, however, this opening on the part of Naess can not be taken to characterize the movement as a whole.
On the other hand, if we look at the Jewish scriptures in light of some of the more extreme expressions coming from deep ecologists and others, we do find an emphasis on discontinuity as well.
It is the cultivation of these intuitions that interests most deep ecologists.
My argument is not against the intentions and actual sensibility of leading deep ecologists.
Shepard's insights help readers to understand the distaste in which deep ecologists hold those kinds of discourse.
The even more radical deep ecologists castigate the human race as a vermin species afflicting Gaia, and proponents yearn for a worldwide pandemic as the cure.
Deep ecologists remind us that stewardship, too, must be deep.
By contrast, deep ecologists disparage such a distinction and its attendant personalistic imagery, and in Heidegger intimations of a loving God remain quite undeveloped.
Heidegger sometimes leans in this direction as well, but deep ecologists deny such a distinction.
It is the Whiteheadian insistence on this distinction that many deep ecologists find offensive, but Whiteheadians can not give it up simply to diminish opposition to our view.
We have more to gain from the rich explorations of individual deep ecologists than from their formal conceptual statements and arguments.
Reflection on how deep ecologists move so easily from the intrinsic value of the natural world to ecological egalitarianism suggests that the most important theoretical difference between them and Whiteheadians may be the locus of intrinsic value.
To clarify this, Whiteheadians must defend the gradations of value that have offended deep ecologists.
Perhaps, also, Whiteheadians can contribute to overcoming the animosity that still sometimes separates deep ecologists from animal rights activists.
As noted above, where Whiteheadians affirm a both / and, deep ecologists set up an either / or.
Deep ecologists see what Rodman calls «extensionism,» that is, extending moral consideration beyond the human sphere to other subjects, as fulfilling and legitimizing «the basic project of modernity — the total conquest of nature by man» quoted with approval by Devall and Sessions (55).
Ruether takes both Ecofeminist and deep ecologist criticism of Christian thought with utmost seriousness, acknowledging and describing Christianity's historic culpability for many unjust, world - destroying practices and attitudes.
Deep ecologists want to counter Western culture's anthropocentrism — its tendency to place humanity at the center of the universe and to reduce the nonhuman world to an instrument for human ends — with a theory of an expanded self which calls for identification with the nonhuman world.
Ruether attends to both Ecofeminist and deep ecologist solutions.
I have had 2 questions on my mind ever since I spent 30 days in seclusion with the systems thinker and deep ecologist Joanna Macy 4 years ago.
This interpretation is further supported by the fact that when Naess identifies the philosophical grounds for deep ecologists, he lists Whitehead alongside Spinoza (77).
Despite Naess's openness to Whiteheadians, the objection to any gradation in the valuation of other species is widespread among deep ecologists.
The lack of attention by deep ecologists to the relations of human beings to individual nonhuman subjects is connected with their distaste for ethics as usually understood.
Most deep ecologists are not panexperientialists, but they make strong statements about the intrinsic value of nature.
But his particular way of moving to this position is interesting to a Whiteheadian who desires also to deepen ecological sensibility but resists some features of the sensibility proposed by Rodman and other leading deep ecologists.
This emphasis on interrelatedness connects Whiteheadians with the emphases of many deep ecologists.
We may hope that by showing that judgments of comparative value do not replace or count against the positive insights of deep ecologists, the offense may at least be reduced, and the alliance on the many points of agreement can be strengthened.
The deep ecologists, pantheists, and so forth say that nature would cheer if man — the human person — were to disappear.
Deep ecologists are, or at least they conceive themselves to be, the most radical of environmental philosophers.
Deep ecologists, Rubin reminds us, claim that the roots of our ills are more profound than our system of industrial organization.
In seeking to root out man's claim to a special status in the universe, deep ecologists are pagan pantheists who reject biblical religion, especially the injunction of Genesis 1:28 to «Fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the seas, the birds of the sky, and all the living beings that move on this earth.»
There is value in reminding us all that our judgments may be distorted by our limited perspectives, but unless it is shown that the judgments of process thinkers are more distorted than those of deep ecologists, little more is accomplished.
Deep ecologists are not in favor of drastic action to implement the goal of population reduction.
But it has been Shepard's formulation and the conclusions he drew from it that have been of greatest importance both for deep ecologists and for me.
The fact that no deep ecologist would draw the conclusions today is partially, but not fully, reassuring.
I assumed, therefore, that I was a deep ecologist.
If Whiteheadians are allowed to identify themselves as deep ecologists, it seems that we can function only as silent supporters, either criticized or ignored, not as participants in a conversation identifying and clarifying the ideas of the movement.
For deep ecologists it is not.
Whiteheadians should gladly acknowledge that deep ecologists have pursued important lines of inquiry to which we have contributed little and that we have much to gain from what they have done.
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