PHL273H1 Lecture Notes - The Roots, Mahatma Gandhi, Paradigm Shift
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Promotes living with nature in peace and compassion: heracleitus, Everything is moving and in motion: spinoza, Everything that exists in nature is living and he saw the divine reflected through the natural world. Process philosopher who rejected the mind body dualism. Ghandi, buddhism, native amercian cultures, thoreau, woody gutherie: thomas jefferson, This was time where ppl were chaining themselves to the forests and trees to stop lumber and deforestation. This was the time where env problems were becoming popular. Paradigm is something that is so close to us reflected through culture, habits, language and the paradigm shift suggests that something is so close/normal that we don"t even stop thinking about it and it defines who we are. Deep ecology vs shallow ecology: difference is the willingness to question, they say that deep ecology goes deeper in the questioning it does. Ecosophy has to do with wisdom of the eco (env: they talk about this relation/total field.
