PHL273H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tree Spiking, Ecotopia, Land Ethic
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Inspiration from taoism, heracleitus, spinoza, whitehead, gandhi, buddhism, Native american cultures, thomas jefferson, thoreau and woody guthrie. Taoism emphasises compassion, moderation and humility; focuses on human correspondence. Heracleitus western pre-socratic philosopher; emphasis that there was no being but just becoming life was a process of change and all things are flowing (you can"t step into the same river twice); Spinoza manifested himself in the natural world; god is not transcendent, but is within the world we occupy and through the earth in the way in which it expresses itself. Whitehead processed philosopher; emphasises that it is wrong to assign value to some static truth. Gandhi a pacifist; deep ecology comes mostly from a pacifist view. Buddhism - will discuss this later on in the lecture. Native american cultures aboriginal cultures; respect of the earth as a source, as mother; respect of the initial giving-ness of what the earth gives us. Thomas jefferson a us president; notion of sustainable farming.
