Sentences with phrase «deep ecology»

The enthusiasts of deep ecology typically come out of a Christian background.

The deep thought of deep ecology is that the environment will be better off without the being with real depth.

The events listed reflect the ethos of Resurgence and embrace issues such as deep ecology, sustainability, art and culture, and holistic education.

In an article not included in either of the two volumes on deep ecology on which I have chiefly relied, he calls for further operationalizing of the «fundamental ethical norms we attempt to use in the ecological crisis» («Encouraging» 54).

From deep ecology we learn both to affirm our kinship with fellow creatures and to allow evolutionary history — past, present, and future — to serve as a frame of reference through which we understand ourselves.

It is certainly not the interpretation that leads him personally to draw on Spinoza as his grounding for deep ecology («Encouraging» 55 - 57).

But whatever our failures, this is not a reason to part ways with deep ecology.

Nothing in either volume on deep ecology suggests that this is an appropriate reflection for deep ecologists.

The anthology that now identifies deep ecology for the next century includes no essays arguing with Whitehead's remark that «life is robbery.

It leads the reader to think that entering into the sensibility of deep ecology vill provide the adequate perspective for all reflection and action.

The claim of this section (IV) is that Whitehead provides a way to affirm and undergird the positive points of deep ecology without rejecting concern for individual creatures.

Two ecological worldviews, referred to in the Introduction, namely deep ecology and the postmodern ecological worldview, both forge strong links between non-human creatures and us.

Deep ecology finds value, not so much in the individual as in the system, be it an ecosystem or the biosphere as a whole, each with its «interests» in self - maintenance.

His work examines deep ecology, radical environmentalism, and dark histories of the American landscape — advancing subtext by proposing a narrative: a dissection of the architecture of anarchy.

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Facets of deep ecology address this concept.

This is deep ecology in a nutshell, and by the first decade of the twenty - first century, the majority of educated people is finally going along with it, even if they may not realize where the idea came from.

Together with George Sessions, Naess politicized deep ecology by putting forth a platform of eight points that turn his conceptual idea into an ethical manifesto: 1) The flourishing of human and nonhuman life on Earth has intrinsic value.

Arne Naess was not only one of the most influential thinkers in environmental philosophy, he was a person who embodied his quest for an ever deeper ecology.

9 Consider joining the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, a so - called deep ecology organisation that believes we should phase out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed.

Presumably he means by this that it is for the Greens to think through the relation of the contributions of deep ecology to those of social, political, and economic analysis, feminists, and liberationists.

Deep ecology is really deep pessimism: How could beings such as ourselves ever show the discipline required to sustain ourselves?

But I expect that other forms of «deep ecology» do indeed go deeper than that.

Yet there are also some urgent truths that are being badly mangled in the confused agitations of radical environmentalism or, as it is called, deep ecology.

In sharp contrast to some religious proponents of «deep ecology» who betray a monistic passion to subsume all of reality into a conceptual tapioca pudding of undifferentiated Oneness, we know that neither we nor nature is God.

That, of course, was before the full - blown philosophies of «deep ecology» and «radical environmentalism» that are so much with us today.

He mentions «deep ecology» a couple of times, always respectfully.

By contrast «deep» environmentalism — that is, deep ecology — adopts a cooperative perspective, believing that human beings are inseparable from that web of life of which they are a part, and that other members of the web are equally as valuable as humans.

The phrase «deep ecology» comes from one of the founders of the movement, the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess (SD).

It's certainly present in our various forms of pantheism and Western Buddhism and deep ecology.

A «deep ecology» based on the work of the Norwegian philosopher, Arne Naess, and appealing to Spinoza for support, is promoted in California chiefly by certain professional philosophers.

As articulated by Naess and Bill Devall, deep ecology is more a moral movement than a political one; it seeks to encourage «ecosophy,» a mental state achieved by overcoming individuation and identifying with the whole of nature.

Deep ecology has increasingly become a standard to judge other parts of the Green movement, and has exercised enormous popular influence through such films as Dances with Wolves, The Big Blue, and Jurassic Park.

Ferry, a leading French neo-Kantian, also explores the theoretical links between German Romanticism, Nazi legislation to protect forests and animals, and deep ecology's antimodern diatribes.

The Encounter with Deep Ecology Whitehead's philosophy can be understood as a deep ecology.

As Cobb points out there is only one other ecological worldview and that is deep ecology, based on the writings of the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess (1989)

Nevertheless, regardless of occasional overstatements and sometimes misdirected polemics, deep ecology's contribution has been enormous.

Hence, critics of process thinkers do not see that our acknowledgment of the intrinsic value of other creatures removes humanity from its central position in the way that is needed if we are to move from a shallow to a deep ecology.

He points out that deep ecology is not an all - encompassing position.

From a Whiteheadian point of view, and also for animal rights theorists, it is deep ecology that seems in this respect to be anthropocentric.

It fails to meet what Sessions calls «the deep ecology norm of «ecological egalitarianism in principle»» (236).

This is surely correct, and it is a point central to deep ecology that has not been made as vividly or consistently by Whiteheadians.

Furthermore, the eight points taken to be the essential principles of «deep ecology,» which I first encountered in the book by Bill Devall and George Sessions, Deep Ecology, are quite acceptable to a Whiteheadian.

Closer examination of the book, however, showed that there are tensions between Whiteheadians and those who have coined the term «deep ecology.»

If this is indeed the meaning of deep ecology, then there will be fewer objections.

Whitehead's philosophy can be understood as a deep ecology.

When I first heard the terms «shallow ecology» and «deep ecology,» I assumed that they described this division — that between a narrowly anthropocentric concern and an inclusive concern for the whole of creation.