عنوان

Ecology, Divinity, and Reason

شماره

LA129737

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Ecology, Divinity, and Reason

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

James W. Waters

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Eco-feminist Val Plumwood has argued that as heirs of rationalism, the developed world has created an ecological crisis that is truly a crisis of reason. Of primary concern is the "rationalist hyper-separation of human identity from nature," which has caused a great epistemological schism between ethics and ecology. Assuming the ecological crisis is, as Plumwood argues, an epistemological crisis enflamed by the human/non-human, ethical/ecological divisions that take place in modern forms of rationalism, this essay argues that certain western interpretations of Christian divinity-particularly the notion of divinity purported by Thomas Aquinas-have historically supported hegemonic forms of rationalism and human supremacy. After showing that certain Thomist formulations of the divine have buttressed the anthropocentric elements of modern rationalism, I venture a reading of Christian divinity that is radically relational in character. This reading of the divine highlights the inseparability of the human and non-human, and begins doing so by emphasizing the intimate connection between human and non-human animality. Such a re-framing of divinity, I argue, could help bridge the human/non-human, ethical/ecological divides, complicate anthropocentric logic, and mitigate the vast eco-epistemological crisis of our day. Eco-feminist Val Plumwood has argued that as heirs of rationalism, the developed world has created an ecological crisis that is truly a crisis of reason. Of primary concern is the "rationalist hyper-separation of human identity from nature," which has caused a great epistemological schism between ethics and ecology. Assuming the ecological crisis is, as Plumwood argues, an epistemological crisis enflamed by the human/non-human, ethical/ecological divisions that take place in modern forms of rationalism, this essay argues that certain western interpretations of Christian divinity-particularly the notion of divinity purported by Thomas Aquinas-have historically supported hegemonic forms of rationalism and human supremacy. After showing that certain Thomist formulations of the divine have buttressed the anthropocentric elements of modern rationalism, I venture a reading of Christian divinity that is radically relational in character. This reading of the divine highlights the inseparability of the human and non-human, and begins doing so by emphasizing the intimate connection between human and non-human animality. Such a re-framing of divinity, I argue, could help bridge the human/non-human, ethical/ecological divides, complicate anthropocentric logic, and mitigate the vast eco-epistemological crisis of our day.

تاريخ نشر

2020

توصيف ظاهري

184-201

عنوان

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

شماره جلد

24/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5357

اصطلاح موضوعی

Catherine Keller

اصطلاح موضوعی

divinity

اصطلاح موضوعی

ecological crisis

اصطلاح موضوعی

ecological ethics

اصطلاح موضوعی

epistemology

اصطلاح موضوعی

St. Thomas Aquinas

اصطلاح موضوعی

Val Plumwood

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

James W. Waters

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685357-20201002

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y