unenlightened

It is still a thing.

I have no disagreement with you. But everything, from the flush toilet to plastic packaging, to the extraordinary complex of transport system, seems b...

I' m reluctant to leave it there, stuck in conflicting loyalties. Circumstances can make us all monsters and dogs, and I have the luxury of sitting in...

What is the good? What is there? What is knowledge? What is a silly question?

I don't think it is. Imparting knowledge, both propositional and 'knowhow' is only one aspect of education. An educational establishment is also a soc...

I wasn't, but I am an ageing hippy, so they probably read my mind.

On which note, here's a relevant conspiracy theory.

I don't know, do you have a problem? Do you need a problem to act?

I'm not sure that there are that many, but they manage to dominate the media, and have undue influence. Ken Livingston, ex mayor of London, was kicked...

I don't understand. Why is that problematic? If we couldn't manage without meat, then it could not be a issue, one can only make a moral issue of what...

I really don't know what you are trying to say. I lived for 5 years in the Pyrenees in a community in some isolation and surrounded by mountain and fo...

Me too, but another part needs the dentist. I do know the difference between farm and forest, I'm just struggling to work out what your point is in re...

Well you contrast city dwellers with wilderness dwellers, it seems. I have no dispute about the psychological benefits to humans of living in the wild...

All God's children gotta go toilet.

I found it very disturbing, but it's not that graphic. You need the subtitles though. I noticed that the film had comments turned off on vimeo, which ...

Can you move it for me then chaps?

I decided it might be unwise to start a thread, but in light of various accusations of anti-semitism against the labour party in the UK, I leave this ...

There is some truth in this, but if it was so simple, farmers would behave differently than they do. Remember that it was the industrialisation of far...

Spice up your life! :fire: I wanted specifically to respond to @"Eric"'s stab. One only needs to inspire a lifelong love of learning after it has been...

I notice you ask what it is, and not what it ought to be. Education is an indoctrination into a world that forbids creativity, individuality, and prom...

Here's some homework in case anyone's interested. https://www.aldoleopold.org/post/understanding-land-ethic/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/femini...

I wonder about that. I see the connection, for sure, and it is certainly claimed that the idea of stewardship can lead one to the principles of deep e...

I refuse to shrug. Management of management, all is management! Or should that be vanity? David Abram 103 The Trumpeter ISSN: 0832-6193 Volume 30, Num...

Nice to have you aboard. Allow me to jump down your throat from the get go. Is there inevitably a potential management that is not mis-management? Or ...

This sounds right to me; effortless observation. But then you don't want your accountant to actually forget all his training and arithmetic. There nee...

Ok. Ok. I don't think we are obliged, but a bit of desert irrigation and amelioration of desertification might be a reasonable policy in some places, ...

I'm not sure what your point is. There is a hierarchy of dependency such that the top predators are the most dependent. On the other hand, I compete d...

Good. I think Deep Ecology is deeply problematic for the current world view, as I indicated in the op. So we are in the right snake pit at last. I don...

You could tilt your head to the left, or you could turn your screen clockwise a quarter turn.

That is a dangerous question. If I am trapped in a mindset that always deals with the new in terms of the old, then for anyone to give me an answer is...

Depends how you look at it. (Try sideways.)

Can you all please go and discuss global warming somewhere else. My topic is Ecophilosophy, and you are getting in the way.

Humans don't have a right to live. They all die. I think you are strawmannirg Deep Ecology, and perhaps uncharitably reading my own loose comments. wh...

I'm not wanting to disconnect anything. But my concern here is to change minds, and change the way people think about the issues that the way we think...

I think you must be on another planet. On my planet the oceans are choking with acidity, excess heat and plastics, not to mention the radioactive wast...

One thing that I see in most of the responses you have had is that they have missed what I see as the point. And the reason for that is that you have ...

It's not our business to resolve such conflicts at all, if we even need to conceive it as a conflict. Insects have a right to live, (but not in my hai...

I'm taking this to be undisputed, that our way of life is destructive, and in the long run self- destructive. But what we do comes out of the way we t...

Yes, this is all very problematic in practice, which is why I want to really avoid that issue in this thread. Take a couple of steps back. The suggest...

An Englishman and a Scotsman and an Irishman go to a new continent. Each of them takes one thing each. The Englishman takes a gun, the Scotsman a knif...

It's not a problem with infants. We understand their wants and needs as best we can, and speak and act and legislate for them. Sometimes we do the sam...

I have decided to be the frog.

Something that might be worth mentioning here is the importance in Eco-philosophy of the concept of 'wilderness'. It is an odd notion to pragmatists, ...

Scotland is not an overcrowded place, but most of the land is owned in very large estates by a few individuals. So most of the population is landless....

If pigs could mate with frogs, the world would be full of muppets. Yesterday's _____ is tomorrow's_____.

Fixing the shower yesterday went rather slowly, because I had to replace the whole unit with a different model and adjust all the plumbing and wiring ...

1. It plays well at home. 2. It discourages dissidents abroad from telling tales. 3. It probes and exposes the impotence of the West and the weakness ...

Boredom is the source of entertainment. The psychology of philosophers tends to be ______. whereas the philosophy of psychologists is usually______.

This is a purely metaphorical duality, surely? As such, it seems to be a dangerous one.

You should look into the I Ching. You don't have to decide on the exact specification of the primary duality; the usual translation is male/creative v...