ENVIRONMENTAL PLURALISM, POLAR HARMONIES AND RESOLUTION
ENVIRONMENTAL PLURALISM, POLAR HARMONIES AND RESOLUTION
Author(s): Sam CocksSubject(s): Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Special Branches of Philosophy
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk i Fundacja Filozofia na Rzecz Dialogu
Keywords: cultural pluralism; home-world; alien-world; polar-harmony; environ-mental ethics; phenomenology; global dialogue; intuitive fulfillment
Summary/Abstract: The point of this essay is to draw on the resources of phenomenology to argue that a global environmental ethics is one that should embrace cultural pluralism. My further claim is that due to the presence of a large variety of what Edmund Husserl understands as home-worlds and alien-worlds, any attempt at a universal environmental ethics might be impossible and perhaps unattractive. Nonetheless, I do believe there should be a dialogue that unfolds across these differences for the sake some operative environ-mental ethics. I believe that an aesthetic model that can help us understand the former is the idea of “polar harmonies” put forth by Hebert Speigelberg. I end by claiming that even when a “common nature” is discovered through the interaction with the alien-world, what is found cannot become universalized due to the unavoidable influence of cultural differences upon this very commonality.
Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 9-21
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English
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