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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Dream of the Earth (1988)di Thomas Berry
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Modern scientific research is discovering a universe that is dynamically alive a whole system, fluid and interconnected. I have tried so hard to like Thomas Berry. I give up. I can't do it. Dense, unreadable prose based on the sketchiest types of half-evidence, stitched together with such slender chains of reasoning that a good sneeze could rip it apart. Nice ideas. Lovely philosophy. A wonderful world would result if, indeed, there were any basis for his proposals or if they were implementable by animals with the sorts of brains human beings have. But they're not, and I can't waste one more second of my life believing that there is anything useful to be learned from a book that makes the argument that there were pre-partriarchal women-ruled societies in which the environment was treated well. Mr. Berry, you meant well, and I respect you as an ally; but to all his successors, I beg of you, please sully yourself with some form of actual evidence, and stop confusing "fact" with "someone else's opinion that you found in print." Within the pages of his book, Berry overviews and examines the relationship between man and the rest of the world and nature. Within the book’s pages the author examines how the idea of man being apart and separate from nature being a myth and how human beings need to learn to be in harmony with the natural world once again. He wonders over how the connections within nature and the world around us should be important to everyone regardless of religion or residence. This book is truly a wonderful read regardless of one’s spirituality over ecology. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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This landmark work, first published by Sierra Club Books in 1988, has established itself as a foundational volume in the ecological canon. In it, noted cultural historian Thomas Berry provides nothing less than a new intellectual-ethical framework for the human community by positing planetary well-being as the measure of all human activity. Drawing on the wisdom of Western philosophy, Asian thought, and Native American traditions, as well as contemporary physics and evolutionary biology, Berry offers a new perspective that recasts our understanding of science, technology, politics, religion, ecology, and education. He shows us why it is important for us to respond to the Earth's need for planetary renewal, and what we must do to break free of the "technological trance" that drives a misguided dream of progress.Only then, he suggests, can we foster mutually enhancing human-Earth relationships that can heal our traumatized global biosystem. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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