Introduction to philosophy of the human person

• Ionia - is a meeting place between the West and East.
• Paradigm Shift - means a change in worldview, a change in how

  reality, truth and facts are viewed.
• Theology - is the systematic study of God and his relationship with humanity
• Chung Tzu - the most eloquent representative of Taoist School.

  believed in nourishing nature, returning to destiny, and enjoying

  nature
• Lao - Tzu - is the most prominent philosopher of nature. He

  compared TAO as the way to water, heaven, emptiness of a vessel,

  color, music, and flavor and even to weakness.
• Taoist goal is to become one with all things and co- exist with

  heaven and earth.
• What are the 2 Main Frameworks or concepts on nature . Eccentric Model and Anthropocentric Model.
• What are the 8 footprint categories?

  1. construction

  2. shelter

  3. food

  4. clothing

  5. mobility

  6. manufactured goods

  7. services

  8. trade
• Numerous concepts and indicators have been used to understand

  environmental impact such as: Carbon Footprint ( CF).
• Anthropocentric Model - is based on the premise that humans are

  essential and central to the universe.
• Eccentric Model - highlights the ecological or relational

  integrity of humans that provides meaning to our morals and values
• The carbon footprint makes it possible to compare the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted from an activity, product, company or country.
• Current researches by Zimmerman (1994 ) Elgin (2009) and Pettman

  (2012 ) to name a few, exposed the environmental consequence of

  International Political - Economic Specialization for specific

  countries and global regions
• Mt. Qiyun garden serves as a symbol of Taoism
• Eastern sages probed nature's depths intuitively through the eyes

  of spiritual sages
• Greek thinkers viewed nature through

  cognitive and scientific eyes
• The Eccentric model in contrast puts the ecosystem first and

  assumes that the natural world has intrinsic value.
• Lao-Tzu compared TAO as the way to Water, Heaven, Emptiness of Vessel, Color, Flavor, Music, Weakness.
• Wuwei- means non doing and oneness with nature
• Chuang Tzu believed in nourishing nature, returning to destiny, and enjoying

  nature
• Who coined the term paradigm shift?

  ThOmas Kuhn
• An ancient Chinese concept with literal meaning of Effortless Action. Wuwei
• Ancient Thinkers:

  Anaximander - is one of the ancient thinker- employ the term"

  boundless" to convey the further

  thought that nature is indeterminate
• boundless in the sense that no boundaries between the warm

  and

  cold or the most and dry regions are originally present within it.
• Pythagoras - another ancient philosopher who described the

  universe as a living embodiment of

  nature's order, harmony and

  beauty.
• Biophilia- love of other living things
• Cosmophilia - love of other living beings.
• Pythagorean beliefs such as; vegetarianism, abstinence, refusalto eat

  beans, refusal to wear animal

  Skin, celibacy, self examination, immorality and reincarnation. (8)
• Renaissance Period - The Renaissance period saw a revival of interest in classical Greek and Roman thought.
• The Chinese cosmic conception, on the other hand, is based on the

  assumption that all that happens
• Immanuel Kant expresses that the beauty is ultimately a

  symbol of morality.
• According to Kant, we must ignore any practical motive or

  inclination that we have and

  Instead contemplate the object without being distracted by

  our desires.
• He believed that the orderliness and the harmony of nature

  with our faculties guide Us Toward a deeper religious perspective. Immanuel Kant
• The vision of the world is not limited to knowledge and freedom or even to faith in the ordinary sense of the

  term. It is a sense of cosmic harmony.
• Herbert Marcuse- Humanity has dominated nature( Attitude )
• George Mead - as human beings, we do not only have rights but

  duties
• Rights contain in them duties.
• Deep Ecology- Ecological crisis is an outcome of anthropocentrism.
• Social Ecology - emphasizes that ecological crisis results

  authoritarian social structures.
• Ecofeminism - ecological crisis is a consequence of male

  dominance.