Shaping the Noosphere

Geoethical values and spiritual resistance in Terres de l’Ebre, Catalonia, Spain

Bibliographic Data

ID22259258
AuthorsFrancesc Bellaubi (0000-0001-5278-7907, Ibero-American University Puebla, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume2
Issue3
Pagese210038
Publication date2021-07-08
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueResistances Journal of the Philosophy of History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2737-6222 • E-ISSN: 2737-6222
PublisherCentro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades desde America Latina (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.46652/resistances.v2i3.38
OpenAlexW3179369253
LanguageEN
References cited52

The concept of the Noosphere is of great importance when looking at the values underpinning the technocratic artifacts and technocracies (human physical technological objects and knowledge processes) by which Humans relate to the Geosphere through other human beings. In this sense, the Noosphere may inform geoethics as an environmental, social, and spiritual praxis and thinking aiming at ecological justice. The concept of the Noosphere represents the coexistence and coevolution of Humans and the Geosphere, overcoming the dichotomy between instrumental materialistic and intrinsic ecocentric values but considering the meaning of a constitutive dimension. Thus, the Noosphere becomes a concept for reconnection with the human community, the natural world, and the Divine, and develops into an ecological mysticism that, in turn, unfolds in resistance in hope as a kind of spiritual activism. The theoretical framework is illustrated with the case study of the Terres de L’Ebre in Catalonia (Spain)

Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Materialism · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Sociology · Technocracy · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geotourism and Geoheritage Conservation · Law · Philosophy · Ecology

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