Pantheism and ecology : cosmological, philosophical, and theological perspectives / Luca Valera, editor.
Valera, Luca, editor.
2023
QH540.5 .P368 2023
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Title
Pantheism and ecology : cosmological, philosophical, and theological perspectives / Luca Valera, editor.
ISBN
9783031400407 (electronic bk.)
3031400402 (electronic bk.)
9783031400391
3031400399
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40040-7
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Cham : Springer, 2023.
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English
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1 online resource (xxi, 366 pages) : illustrations.
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10.1007/978-3-031-40040-7 doi
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QH540.5 .P368 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
333.95/16
Summary
Environmental ethics arises from the harmfulness of human beings with respect to non-human species and, more generally, to the environment. A common starting point for environmental ethics is that human beings are responsible for damaging nature. The famous four laws of ecology express this guilt on the part of human beings, who very often voluntarily violate the behavioral indications that emerge from nature itself. Eco-theology suggests when humans destroy the natural world, we are wounding God. Such an idea implies a possible coincidence of God with the natural world. From this assumption, various questions emerge: what is the kind of coincidence between God and the natural world? Are God and the ecosystem coextensive? If so, are we re-sacralizing the natural world and grounding intrinsic values in theological postulates and statements? These questions lead us to reconsider the cosmological assumptions that ground our environmental judgements. This book will focus on the cosmological assumptions of pantheism, discussing the symmetrical (or asymmetrical) relationships between God and the finite ways in which God manifests Godself. This book is divided into three parts: first, the question of pantheism is approached from different traditions and with a special focus on the main thinkers, from Greek Stoicism to the present day. Second, current ecological concerns are considered in relation to pantheistic cosmology: from the discussion of the different ⁰́b-pan-conceptions⁰́b+ to the problem of evil, to Anthropocene. Finally, the book will focus on ethical issues in the field of the current environmental crisis with a huge connection with the pantheistic cosmologies. This book is oriented to a wide public, interested in environmental issues and looking for an approach from different cultures and traditions. Evidently, due to its ⁰́b-academic⁰́b+ nature, this book is intended for researchers interested in eco-theology and the relationship between pantheism and ecology.
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Valera, Luca, editor.
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Ecology and ethics (Springer (Firm)) ; v.6. 2198-9737
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Part I. Pantheism, Ecology, and Cosmology. Different Perspectives and Traditions
Chapter 1. Brief History of the Organism and the Relationship between the Whole and its Parts
Chapter 2. Stoic Pantheism and Environmental Ethics in Pliny the Elder
Chapter 3. The Presence of God in Creation: The Medieval Motifs of Ontological Continuity, Light and Sympathy for Creatures
Chapter 4. Nature, Venustas, and Harmony
Chapter 5. Spinoza: Ecosystemic Consequences of the Intersections between Pantheism, Panentheism, and Aacosmism
Chapter 6. Schleiermacherean Panentheism and Ecology
Chapter 7. Rumi and Tagore on Being-with-Nature
Chapter 8. The Withdrawal of God and Man as Co-creator in Hans Jonas' Cosmogonic Conjecture
Chapter 9. Hans Jonas And Pantheism: On Ecology and the Problematic Relationship between God, World, and Man
Chapter 10. The Evolutionary Process Leading up to the Anthropocene as Seen Through Pierre Teilhard de Chardin⁰́b9s Cosmic Christology
Chapter 11. Influences of the Spinozian Philosophy in the Environmental Activism of Arne Naess
Part II. Current Ecological Concerns and Cosmologies: Exploring Pantheism
Chapter 12. Raimon Panikkar⁰́b9s Sacred Secularity: An Advaita Interpretation to Understand the Sacredness of Nature
Chapter 13. Spinozism and Native Americans on Pantheism and Panentheism
Chapter 14. Ground of Being: The panentheism of Paul Tillich, Earth Care, and Intercultural Dialogue
Chapter 15. God, Home, and Thinking in the Place: What kind of pantheism did Thoreau Endorse?
Chapter 16. Genesis 1 as Ecosophy
Chapter 17. Panentheism in Christian Ecotheology
Chapter 18. Theism Versus Pancomprehensions
Chapter 19. The Hidden Theology in the New Naturalisms
Chapter 20. Towards a Speculative Ecology. Monads, Habits, and the Non-otherness of the World
Chapter 21. Anthropocene Narratives and New Cosmologies
Chapter 22. System as Paradigm for a New World View
Part III. From Pantheism to Ethics and Politics
Chapter 23. Pantheism: Destruction of Boundaries?
Chapter 24. Intrinsic Values, Pantheism, and Ecology: Where Does Value Come From?
Chapter 25. Humans are Humus: An Analysis of Boff's Panentheistic Ecotheology in the Framework of the Biocultural Ethic
Chapter 26. On the Compatibility Between Panentheism and Fragmentation: An Experimental Ecofeminist Loosening of the "in" in Allingottlehre
Chapter 27. Hossein Nasr on the Environmental Crisis
Chapter 28. Francis Halle's Project for a Large Primary Forest in Western Europe and a New Understanding of Our Relationship with the Biosphere.

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