From Ecology to Ecosophy

For the last four decades we notice a significant change in the direction of Deep environmentalism: metaphysical or ontological issues are gradually drawing more attention than the normative ones. At its initial stage, it was satisfied with suggesting norms to guide our interaction with the Nature. Later it is realised that the isolated ethical concerns about the environment will not do, unless and until they are supplemented by the underlying ontological concerns, or in other words, by some ecosophy . By ecosophy Naess refers to any integrated philosophy of Nature an earth-wisdom of ecological harmony that contains both norms, rules, postulates, value-priority announcements and hypotheses concerning states-of-affairs in our universe, inspired by ecology and Deep Ecology movement. Naess finds it important to move from ethics to ontology and back in his philosophy of environmentalism. For an adequate philosophy of ecology we must have a Self-realisation or an Identification with the whole of Nature, in addition to admitting its intrinsic or inherent value.

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Dr. I Gede Suwantana has obtained his Ph.D degree in Philosophy in 2012 at the University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India. Since 2006, he has been a Director Indra Udayana Institute of Vedanta, and has worked as a lecturer at Institut Hindu Dharma Negeri Denpasar, Indonesia.