Scientia (Sep 2018)
Ang Persona ng Kalikasan
Abstract
This essay traces the root of our present environmental crisis in the modern turn of Western humanity and in it's imposition of its reductionist paradigms for engaging what come to presence on the global community It articulates the challenge for humanity to rediscover nature as a presencing that invites the human being to let nature presence as aprecensing other. It inquires into the necessity and possibility of being presented to. It also poses the possibility that this presencing signifies the presencing of a transcendent other who is the persohood of nature. Only in recognizing nature as the presencing of a personal other can we recover the respect ecological dwelling calls for. References Camus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus. London: Penguin Books, 1975. Crosby, Alfred W. Columbian Exchange: Biological ang Cultural Consequences of 1492(Contributions to American Studies #2). Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1976 Gore, Al. Earth in the Balance and the Human Spirit. New York: Rodale Books, 2006. Kohak, Erazim. The Green Halo: A Bird’s Eye View of Ecological Ethics. Chicago: Open Court, Kindle Edition. Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. New York: Vintage Books, 2006. Nono, Gracce. Song of the Babaylan, Quezon City: Institute of Spirituality in Asia, 2013. Tuan, Yi-Fu. "The City: Its Distance from Nature," Geographical Review, 68:1 (1978). Note: Funding for this research was provided for by the Philippine Higher Education Research Network (PHERNET)
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