Transcript ethics.ppt.ppt

Conference
Format
• Lawrence Buell
– Literature as Environmental(ist) Thought Experiment?
• Donald Worster
– Nature, Liberty, and Equality
• Mary Evelyn Tucker
– Touching the Depth of Things: Cultivating Nature in East Asia
• Michael D. Jackson
– A Walk on the Wild Side: The Idea of Nature Revisited
• Bron Taylor
– From the Ground Up: Growing a Green Future for Religion and
Ethics
• Michael Zimmerman
– Interiority Regained: Integral Ecology and Environmental Ethics
• Panel Discussion
Lawrence Buell
Literature as Environmental(ist) Thought Experiment?
• How does literature play in to society’s perception of
the environment?
• What are common misconceptions?
• The Jungle misinterpretation
• Silent Spring
Donald Worster
Nature, Liberty, and Equality
• How does the degradation of our environment affect
our liberal democracy?
• Good examples include:
– Greenbelt Movement
– Huxley’s Brave New World
Mary Evelyn
Tucker
Touching the Depth of Things: Cultivating Nature in East
Asia
• Where does monism fit in a discussion dominated by
dualism
• Separation of mind and body
Michael D.
Jackson
A Walk on the Wide Side: The Idea of Nature Revisited
• Sustainability and globalization, are they the greatest
struggles facing all culture?
Bron Taylor
From the Ground Up: Growing a Green Future for Religion
and Ethics
• Can there be a world religion revolved around the
environment?
• Homogenization or polarization?
Michael
Zimmerman
Interiority Regained: Integral Ecology and Environmental
Ethics
• What deeper force has caused our culture to turn a
cold shoulder to ethics and the environment?
Experience
Gained
•
The environmental ethics is a complex issue that is
difficult to define. As seen through the panelists,
definitions change between cultures and religions
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