Lesson 7.2: Human Person in the Environment Flashcards
questions about what the world is made of, how did the world come into being, and how can we explain the process of change were brought up approximately in
600 b.c.e. in the western lonian seaport in the town of miletus across the aegean sea from athens, greece
organization of anthropocentric model
human; culture; individualism; mind; calculative; human over against environment; global technological
organization of ecocentric model
nature; wild; holism; nature/cosmos; body; relational; earth wisdom; ecology over against humans
flower
bibliophilia
trees
bibliophilia
mountains
bibliophilia
cat
bibliophilia
dog
bibliophilia
gardening
ecocentric
kaingin
anthropocentric
mining
anthropocentric
flowering plants
ecocentric
ikaw
cosmophilia
ako
cosmophilia
family
cosmophilia
igsoon
cosmophilia
teacher
cosmophilia
unggoy
biophilia
anaximander employed the term
boundless
to convey the further thought that nature is indeterminate-boundless in a sense that no boundaries between the warm and cold or the moist and dry regions are originally present within it
boundless (anaximander)
based on the assumption that all that happens in the universe is a continuous whole like chain of natural consequences
chinese cosmic conception
all events in the universe follow a transitional process due to the
primeval pair (yang and yin)
the universe does not proceed onward but revolves without beginning or end
chinese cosmic conception
there is nothing new under the sun; the “new” is a repetition of the old
chinese cosmic conception
human beings happiness relies in his conformity with nature or tao, the wise, therefore, conforms with tao and is happy
chinese cosmic conception
“there can only be change if we will change our attitude towards our perception of the environment”
herbert marcuse
we are not only citizens of the community but how we react to this community and in our reaction to it, change it
george mead
german humanistic philosopher
erich fromm
believes that it is about time that humanity ought to recognize not only itself but also the world around it
erich fromm
“our biological urge for survival turns into selfishness and laziness.”
erich fromm
he argues that, as humans, it is also inherent in us to escape the prison cell of selfishness
erich fromm