This groundbreaking collection explores the intersection of phenomenology with environmental philosophy. It examines the relevance of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas for thinking through the philosophical dilemmas raised by environmental issues, and then proposes new phenomenological approaches to the natural world. The contributors demonstrate phenomenology's need to engage in an ecological self-evaluation and to root out anthropomorphic assumptions embedded in its own methodology. Calling for a reexamination of beliefs central to the Western philosophical tradition, this book...

This groundbreaking collection explores the intersection of phenomenology with environmental philosophy. It examines the relevance of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas for thinking through the philosophical dilemmas raised by environmental issues, and then proposes new phenomenological approaches to the natural world. The contributors demonstrate phenomenology's need to engage in an ecological self-evaluation and to root out anthropomorphic assumptions embedded in its own methodology. Calling for a reexamination of beliefs central to the Western philosophical tradition, this book...

Nature's Edge brings together leading environmental thinkers from the natural sciences, geography, political science, religion, and philosophy to explore the complex facets of boundary formation and negotiation at the heart of our environmental problems. The contributors provide a fresh look at how our lives depend on the lines drawn and ask how those lines must be reinscribed, blurred, or even erased to prepare for a sustainable future.

Resolving environmental problems calls for the negotiation of multiple, intersecting boundaries--natural, social, political, geographical, and ethical....

"Societal Collapse"? Clearly a "today" event grabbing headlines on all mainstream and social media Analysed, ad nauseum, by a myriad of "experts" and agonised over by the hapless millions caught up in the desperate struggles that now characterise "societal collapse," the international conferences ostensibly designed to bring "peace" and "reconciliation" for the affected societies rarely achieve true unification of the warring parties. The great far-seeing prophet, Isaiah, declared it succinctly for exactly this time in our evolutionary journey. "Take counsel together, and it will come to...

Global humanity in crisis From the full spectrum of global media, the facts bombard us continually: Pollution, poverty, disease, ethnic savagery, tribal butchery, increasing crime and human rights violations and financial meltdown. Despairing global societies struggle to cope with this multi-faceted and socially-destructive 'tsunami'. Despite that obvious reality, we all still want the world to be our way and all answers to be our answers. Ludicrous, and bordering on insanity; yet that is precisely 'how it now is'. The truly ludicrous notion among many religions that God 'causes everything...

Apocalypse: 2. a. A prophetic disclosure or revelation. 3. a. An event marked by violent destruction and upheaval. Middle English Apocalipse, from Late Latin Apocalypsis, from Greek apokalupsis, revelation, from apokaluptein, to uncover.] As far back as the Eighth century B.C., the great Prophet, Isaiah, in brutal visionary prophecy, warned that humankind would reach this very point that we are now fruitlessly struggling with. In just two short sentences he described the what, how and why of a future complete cleansing of Earth of the very many humans who simply refuse to accept that there...

Creation versus Evolution: The great debate that rages on. Theory after theory after theory is proposed, with not even a hint of "middle ground" from either of the two opposing camps. To not be able to come to a definitive answer or conclusion for our human origins quite simply means that "they" do not know. It's all guesswork. The clear reality for both sides of this ultimately foolish and corrosive debate is that we humans are here on earth. We exist, we are here. Descartes: "I think, therefore I am." So irrespective of Bible Scripture, theological musing, empirical scientific skepticism or...

Sir Isaac Newton: Scientist, theologian, astronomer and mathematician; the "scientist's scientist" NASA's space program is founded on "Newtonian physics." Newton the theologian assiduously sought within the Bible for "The Plan of The World." At the heart of Newton's unshakeable belief - that contained somewhere in the Bible was the key to understanding the plan of the world - lay three major points: 1 - A rational God made a rational universe. 2 - All wisdom lay in the knowledge of numbers. 3 - Only a few natural laws apply to the whole universe. Albert Einstein: A colossus of science. His...

This booklet purposefully offers the revisionist view simply because there are clear and very disturbing discrepancies between the "official theological standpoint" surrounding the life and death of Jesus, and that which The Bible states. The blind acceptance of teachings that defy rational logic and which therefore transgress all natural processes - The Creator in His Divine Perfection being the Absolute of all that is natural - means that any incorrect interpretation, religious or otherwise, denies the very Perfection inherent in Him and His Will, of which Jesus was, and is, Part And since...

For 2000 years, Christians, theologians, scholars and historians have broadly accepted these two designations as describing One Person - Jesus: The Son of God. However, a serious and brutally-logical analysis of the actual Scriptures which pertain to these two Titles, along with connecting Scripture that add irrefutable and clarifying reinforcement to the primary axiom here, clearly show that belief to not be the case at all. To that particular end the clear statement: "No man hath seen God at any time..." irrefutably destroys the singular, supposedly sacrosanct, tenet we allude to. If you,...