Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2017-08-03T16:25:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Josenir Lopes Dettoni_.pdf: 630699 bytes, checksum: c130964cec105bd5a97a65049b8ba288 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-03T16:25:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Josenir Lopes Dettoni_.pdf: 630699 bytes, checksum: c130964cec105bd5a97a65049b8ba288 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-31 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Com o título de “(Pós-)Individualismo e meio ambiente: perspectivas de um olhar responsável para o futuro”, a proposta da Tese é discutir eticamente o problema dos desafios ecológicos em um tempo de moral individualista. Uma produção filosófica com essas características justifica-se pela possível contribuição ética frente à iminência de uma crise ambiental global que pode causar danos irreparáveis à natureza, grave acirramento de problemas sociais e prejudicar seriamente a qualidade de vida das gerações futuras. Com esse propósito, a problemática aqui abordada pode ser traduzida por meio dos seguintes questionamentos centrais: Como um cenário moral individualista impacta na questão de nossa responsabilidade ético-ambiental? É possível pensar em uma contribuição filosófica para a superação dos problemas decorrentes desse quadro? Para atingir seus objetivos, o presente trabalho utiliza como principal referencial filosófico a teoria da Ética da Responsabilidade, de Hans Jonas, em especial como apresentada em sua obra O Princípio Responsabilidade: ensaio de uma ética para a civilização tecnológica. Os procedimentos metodológico-filosóficos aqui adotados também foram desenvolvidos pelo mesmo autor ao destacar princípios de investigação sobre ética do futuro. Por fim, após uma breve apresentação dos principais elementos do problema ecológico atual e de uma análise sobre o individualismo contemporâneo, a Tese sustenta, como proposta de contribuição para o enfrentamento dessa grave adversidade, a necessidade de um discurso moral que suprassuma o individualismo, um discurso pós-individualista, e suscita questões éticas de relevância voltadas para o futuro. / Titled “(Post-) Individualism and the Environment: perspectives on a responsible future world-view”, the proposal for this thesis is to discuss the ethics behind problems regarding the environmental challenges in a morally individualistic world. Philosophical work with these characteristics is justified by the potential ethical contributions in the face of an imminent global environmental crisis that could cause irreversible damage to nature, serious aggravation of social problems, and severely reduce the quality of life of future generations. With this scope, the problematic thus presented can be translated into two central questions: How does a morally individualistic scenario impact our ethical-environmental responsibility? Is it possible to think about philosophical work that drives the overcoming of the problems portrayed on this framework? In order to reach its scope, the present work uses as a main reference, the theory of Ethical Responsibility from Hans Jonas, especially as it is presented on his work, The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age. The philosophical methodologies hereby employed were also developed by the same author, highlighting research principles about future ethics. Finally, after a brief presentation of the main elements of the present environmental problem, and an analysis about contemporary individualism, this thesis supports, as a contribution to coping with this dire adversity, the necessity of a moral discourse that overtakes individualism, a post-individualist discourse, and the rise of central ethical questions relevant to the future.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:18:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Wagner Francisco da Silva.pdf: 1456885 bytes, checksum: c311ea06fbc164ad31ddb18833fe8f04 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-17 / This piece investigates the emergence of Environmental Ethics in environmental and psychosocial system using the method of the system. Its approach to the communicative dimension of ecological thinking and systemic. The research proposal has led to an analysis by the Environmental Ethics of metaphysics Peirceana (Ibri, 1992) the concepts of chance and continuity, finding support in the mechanism of action of empathy (Damásio, 1999 and 2004). We emphasize that our interest in this work is governed by ontological issues. Addressing some theories such as (the ontology of Mario Bunge Systemic and that of C. S. Peirce, the theory of Umwelt Jakob von Uexküll and caused a systemic theory of communication) to support the emergence of Environmental Ethics is the path chosen, as they have purpose is to investigate the nature of the systemic and complex reality of the human species. So these theories guide us to think about levels of knowledge, showing that kind of knowledge requires the Environmental Ethics. It was possible to see that the challenges posed by the object - Environmental Ethics - have significant implications on the role (and power) of the media in the implementation of such ethics / Este trabalho investiga a emergência da Ética Ambiental no sistema ambiental e psicossocial utilizando o método do sistemismo. Tem como abordagem a dimensão comunicativa do pensamento ecológico e sistêmico. A proposta da pesquisa conduziu a uma análise da Ética Ambiental através da metafísica peirceana (Ibri,1992) nos conceitos de acaso e continuidade, encontrando suporte no mecanismo de ação da empatia (Damásio,1999 e 2004). Ressaltamos que o nosso interesse, neste trabalho, rege-se por questões ontológicas. Abordar algumas teorias como: (a Ontologia Sistêmica de Mario Bunge e aquela de C. S. Peirce, a teoria do Umwelt de Jakob Von Uexküll e uma decorrente teoria Sistêmica da Comunicação) para sustentar a emergência da Ética Ambiental foi o caminho escolhido, já que elas têm como propósito inquirir sobre a natureza da realidade sistêmica e complexa da espécie humana. Assim tais teorias nos orientam a pensar níveis de conhecimento, evidenciando que tipo de conhecimento a Ética Ambiental exige. Foi possível enxergar que os desafios propostos pelo objeto Ética Ambiental têm implicações significativas quanto ao papel (e poder) dos meios de comunicação na implantação de tal ética

Terry Tempest Williams, in Finding Beauty in a Broken World employs literary techniques that suggest dislocations and relocations of the human subject in ethical modes of being. Through narrative techniques, multidisciplinary language, and themes of conversation, gift-exchange, listening and response, Williams reflects ecological humanist mosaics, suggesting cooperative regeneration—an intersection of material beings facilitated by an ethical human imagination that listens, receives, and gives toward patterns of beauty, including, but not limited to, being human in a collective world. This eco-critical analysis of Williams’s work affirms the human being in post-humanist philosophy and repositions relational Romanticism for the 21st century.

An account of the nature of courage and how it figures in management decisions is developed on the basis of classical and contemporary literature in philosophy and management. The account contains seven elements, including obstacles and tools and a requirement for acting for good. The account is subject to a reality check using content analysis of articles in the business press in Australia, United Kingdom, United States and Hong Kong.

This research project responds to the observation of radical ecologists and ecopsychologists that our present approaches to environmental change are widely limited to technological, behavioural and cognitive strategies, and lack a deep understanding of the complex psychological and sociocultural interrelationships that underpin human perception and behaviour. To gain a deepened understanding of our ecological crises from depth psychological, holistic, and transpersonal perspectives, a number of counsellors, psychotherapists, naturopaths, and one environmental educator were either interviewed or completed questionnaires that explored the meaning of the terms ‘environment’ and ‘sustainability’. They were also invited to express their views on environmental deterioration and what it means to them to live sustainably. The knowledge obtained from the research participants, an extensive literature review, and my professional experience as a psychotherapist, workshop facilitator and trainer, suggest that the current dominant theories and practices of environmental education, and other change practices, are limited in their effectiveness. The study proceeds with a discussion of key issues related to the ecological approach proposed in this study; and of emergent areas such as environmental education, education for sustainability, deep ecology and ecofeminism. A critique focuses particularly on the common assumption of conventional learning paradigms that deep change can be achieved without addressing emotional resistance to such change. By using the work of the Resilience Alliance, “a multidisciplinary research group that explores the dynamics of complex adaptive as a reference point it is argued that our need to compensate for our fragmented selves leads to significant resistances to changes in consciousness. The study concludes with a summary of the main findings and thoughts on possible sustainable and unsustainable futures. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

This dissertation comprises a series of five separate papers, arranged as chapters, linked thematically and also in their conclusions. The thematic connection between the chapters is that, in each, I investigate some aspect, either historical or contemporary, of how moral limits have been, or might be, applied to the human manipulation of nature through technology. More specifically, I explore how the concept of naturalness has been, and still is, employed in ethical arguments that seek to place limits upon or defend the use of various technologies. In each chapter, I argue that arguments which appeal to nature or naturalness as a normative concept make proper sense only when understood from the perspective of virtue ethics. The conclusions of each chapter are connected, and connected to the conclusions of the dissertation as a whole: firstly, that what I call 'arguments from nature', as they are used in debates about the moral limitations on the use of technology, are defensible only from within a virtue ethics framework; secondly, that such arguments have an important, although limited, role in such debates; and, finally, that virtue ethics more broadly can inform debates about the ethics of technology and the environment. In the first two chapters, by comparing contemporary debates over the ethics of technological manipulation of nature with historical debates over the proper relationship between art and nature, I demonstrate that virtue ethics have played, and still do play, a significant role in our ethical understanding of our relationship with the non-human world. I argue that the ethical issues that arise from our relationship with the non-human world, in response to advances in technology and to problems with the environment, indicate the need for an understanding of ethics that goes further than the mere consideration of rights and utility. In chapters three and four, I argue that virtue ethical theory provides the most promising understanding of the argument from nature as it is applied in attempts to place limits on the human manipulation of nature. In the final chapter, I explore what a modern environmental or technological virtue or vice might be. I explain and defend the environmental and technological virtue of 'living in place' and, in doing so, bring together and validate the claims made in previous chapters that the appeal to human nature does have a role as a normative guide for our ethical evaluations of how we should live and, more generally, that virtue ethical theory can be of guiding and foundational significance in an overarching ethics of the environment and technology.

<p>Denna studie syftar till att uppmärksamma uppfattningar om klimatförändringarna utifrån fem informanters perspektiv och med kopplingar till relevant litteratur inom klimatområdet. Viktiga aspekter av klimatförändringar som diskuteras är informanternas syn på människans inverkan på klimatet, fördelningen av ansvar och viljan till förändringar och uppoffringar.</p> / <p>This study attempts to give an account of views on climate change from the perspectives of five informants and with reference to relevant literature within the area of climate change. Important aspects of climate change are discussed, such as the human effect on the climate, the distribution of responsibility and the willingness to address change and accept sacrifices.</p>

Denna studie syftar till att uppmärksamma uppfattningar om klimatförändringarna utifrån fem informanters perspektiv och med kopplingar till relevant litteratur inom klimatområdet. Viktiga aspekter av klimatförändringar som diskuteras är informanternas syn på människans inverkan på klimatet, fördelningen av ansvar och viljan till förändringar och uppoffringar. / This study attempts to give an account of views on climate change from the perspectives of five informants and with reference to relevant literature within the area of climate change. Important aspects of climate change are discussed, such as the human effect on the climate, the distribution of responsibility and the willingness to address change and accept sacrifices.

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Idag står vi inför utmaningen att leva inom vår planets gränser. För att uppnå en hållbar utveckling krävs det en förändring i tankesätt, värderingar och livsstil menar UNESCO-UNEP. Detta kan åstadkommas genom en fundamental förändring i utbildningen från tidig barndom. Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka hur hållbar utveckling tolkas i den svenska grundskolan. Två ämnen har valts; biologi och hem- och konsumentkunskap. I uppsatsen identifieras de miljöetiska perspektiven antropocentrism och ekocentrism och hur de kommer till uttryck i förhållande till ämnestradition. De metoder som används är semi-strukturerade intervjuer av högstadielärare, dokumentanalys av läroplan och kursplaner och tematisk analys intervjuerna. Resultatet visar att i såväl läroplan och kursplaner som undervisningen framgår det att antropocentrismen har stort utrymme, då det är stort fokus på resurser, människan och samhället, i såväl hem- och konsumentkunskap som biologi. Ekocentrismen kan ses i form av uttryck i läroplan och kursplaner utifrån hänsyn och respekt för naturen, och genom att ge eleven förståelse inför valsituationer som rör hälsa och miljö. Ämnestradition har betydelse för hur hållbar utveckling tolkas i undervisningen. Biologi är naturorienterat med naturliga processer och kretslopp i fokus, vilket leder till fler ekocentriska resonemang. Hem- och konsumentkunskap har fokus på individen, hemmet och samhället, vilket ger mindre utrymme för ekocentrism. Alla lärare visade på både ekocentriska och antropocentriska resonemang. Lärarnas egna åsikter angående hållbar utveckling kan finna väg in i undervisningen, vilket anses kunna leda till större utrymme för ekocentrism i undervisningen. / Today we stand before the challenge of living within our planets limits. UNESCO-UNEP argue that to achieve a sustainable development changes in thinking, attitudes and lifestyle is required. This can be accomplished with a fundamental change in education from early childhood. The aim with this study is to research how sustainable development is interpreted in the Swedish elementary school. Two school subjects have been chosen; biology and home economics. In the essay the environmental ethics anthropocentrism and ecocentrism, and how they are expressed in relations to tradition is identified.  Methods used are semi-structured interviews with teachers, document analysis of the curriculum and syllabus and thematic analysis of the interviews. The results show that in the education as well as the syllabus it is clear that anthropocentrism has larger room. This because of the focal point in both home economics and biology is common resources, humans and society. Ecocentrism in the curriculum and syllabus is shown through consideration and respect for the nature, and through students’ understanding when making choices. The tradition of the school subjects has significance for how sustainable development is interpreted in the education. Biology is nature oriented with focus on natural processes and cycles, which lead to additional ecocentric reasoning. Home economics has the focal point on the individual, the home and society, which leads to less ecocentric reasoning. All teachers that were interviewed showed both ecocentric and anthropocentric reasoning. The teachers’ opinions can find way in to the education, which here is considered to the possibility of more room for ecocentrism in home economics.