The Forms of Life
Complexity, History, and Actuality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11266281 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Cheetham (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 293-311 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4275 • E-ISSN: 2153-7895 |
| Publisher | Philosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5840/enviroethics19931543 |
| OpenAlex | W2322182365 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
A fundamental misapprehension of the nature of our being in the world underlies the general inhumanity and incoherence of modern culture. The belief that abstraction as a mode of knowing can be universalized to provide a rational ground for all human knowledge and action is a pernicious and unacknowledged background to several modern diseases. Illustrative of these maladies is the seeming dichotomy between the aesthetic and the analytic approaches to nature. One critical arena in which the incoherences of our current understandings of our place in nature come to light is in the battle over the environment. I argue that a more adequate conceptualization of our place in the natural world can be erected if the central metaphors for our understanding are grounded in notions derived from the sciences of life. The key concepts must include contingency, historicity, evolution, organism, and imaginative interaction with concrete reality in individual human beings
Conceptualization · Contingency · Epistemology · Political science · Sociology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2008 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |