Deep Ecology

The Ethical Experience of Nature: Aristotle and the Roots of Ecological Phenomenology

by Dylan Van Der Schyff

I demonstrate here how Aristotle’s teleological conception of nature has been largely misunderstood in the scientific... more I demonstrate here how Aristotle’s teleological conception of nature has been largely misunderstood in the scientific age and I consider what his view might offer us with regard to the environmental challenges we face in the 21st century. I suggest that in terms of coming to an ethical understanding of the creatures and things that constitute the ecosystem, Aristotle offers a welcome alternative to the rather instrumental conception of the natural world and low estimation of subjective experience our contemporary techno-scientific culture espouses. Among other things, I consider how his conception of orexis and eudaimonia (happiness or, as I prefer here, “the flourishing life”) might be extended to include the eco-system itself, thus allowing us to better understand the moral meaning of nature. I conclude with a look at the way in which modern phenomenology re-addresses the fundamental Greek concern with ontology, meaning and human authenticity. I consider the ways in which phenomenology reasserts the value of direct human experience that was so important to Aristotle; and I consider how this view, and that of Deep ecology, may help us to experience nature - and all of Being for that matter - in a more authentic, meaningful and altogether ethical light.

Environmental Ethics: Between Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism

by Boushra Dalile

Ian Angus interviews philosopher Arne Naess about nature, social justice and strategies for change

by Ian Angus

Free nature: Ian Angus interviews philosopher Arne Naess about nature, social justice and strategies for change: [1]
Angus, Ian. Alternatives Journal 23. 3 (Summer 1997): 18-21.

The Dream of the Biocentric Community and the Structure of Utopias1

by Peder Anker

Deep ecology in Bucharest

by Peder Anker

Continuous Desert: Truth and Insoluble Isolation

by J.W. Trull

Muir's Ecology: The Landscape that Glows of a Human Face

by J.W. Trull

“Omne ens est bonum”: Vers une radicalisation nécessaire de l’éthique

by Paulo Jesus

Jesus, P. (2011). “Omne ens est bonum”: Vers une radicalisation nécessaire de l’éthique. In S. Nour Sckell & D. Ehrardt (Dir.), La Fascination de la Planète : L’éthique de la diversité (Collège Humboldt, Paris, 5-8 novembre 2008). Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, p. 221-234.

En renouant avec une thèse célèbre de la philosophia perennis, notre propos est d’interroger la rupture moderne entre... more En renouant avec une thèse célèbre de la philosophia perennis, notre propos est d’interroger la rupture moderne entre être et valoir. Car, indépendamment de l’existence d’une source transcendante unique, indépendamment de son essence personnelle ou impersonnelle, morale ou amorale, indépendamment du statut sacré ou profane de ce qui existe et du fait même d’exister, j’éprouve et je sais qu’il y a moi et non-moi dans l’être, et que moi n’est ni maître ni esclave ni étranger, mais rapport concret et singulier à ce qui est autre que moi et à mon sentiment d’appartenance ou de non-appartenance à lui. La tangentialité  est ici continuelle et sans échappatoire. Dans tout rapport, l’intimité montre ce qui se différencie : une altérité vis-à-vis de moi et aussi déjà en moi.

The Right(s) Way Across the Eco/Anthro Divide

by Georges Alexandre (Alex) Lenferna

Draft Only

Here is the first chapter of my thesis, which looks at the rights of nature movement and it's relation to... more Here is the first chapter of my thesis, which looks at the rights of nature movement and it's relation to environmental ethics and current rights discourse.

Review Contesting Earth's Future by Michael Zimmerman

by Carl L Bankston

Why Ambient Poetics?

by Tim Morton

Published in The Wordsworth Circle 33.1 (Winter, 2002), 52–6.

My first attempt to work towards the philosophical view of “ecology without nature.” My first attempt to work towards the philosophical view of “ecology without nature.”

L'individu et la société dans l'écologie profonde.

by Alexis Vrignon

Lire—enfin—Arne Næss.

by Alexis Vrignon

Survey of deep-dwelling red coral (Corallium rubrum) populations at Cap de Creus (NW Mediterranean)

by Lorenzo Bramanti

Autumn Affirmed – Art for Artless Times. On Nietzsche, Art and the Environment

by David Albert Rathbone

co-authorored with Timoth d'Atholia, published in *Harvest: Fresh Australian Writing* Issue One (2008)

Wikipedia entry for: "Faith in the Earth"

by David Albert Rathbone

my recently created Wikipedia entry

Wikipedia entry for: "Faith in the Earth"

by David Albert Rathbone

my recently created Wikipedia entry

Review of: The Barbaric Heart by Curtis White

by Ozzie Zehner

Zehner, Ozzie. “Review of: The Barbaric Heart.” Critical Environmentalism 1, no. 2 (2011).

Any environmental book beginning with an injection of prose on the slaughtering of children by Roman troops, isn’t... more Any environmental book beginning with an injection of prose on the slaughtering of children by Roman troops, isn’t going to be your standard Sunday brunch talk-about. Yet it is on this macabre scene where White begins, as he holds our hand and guides us through the haunted house of human history to search for the origin of our environmental ills.

The Moral Status of Animals and the Historical Human Cachet

by Rob Boddice

JAC: Rhetoric, Writing, Multiple Literacies, Politics, 30:3-4 (2010).

Winner of the James L. Kinneavy Award for Most Outstanding Article in JAC in 2010.

Everything you know... more Winner of the James L. Kinneavy Award for Most Outstanding Article in JAC in 2010.

Everything you know about Bentham and Darwin turns out to be wrong.

Andreozzi, M 2009, La rivoluzione silenziosa (Silent Revolution), Pikaia, Milano

by Matteo Andreozzi

Italian Language