Environmental Ethics A Philosophical Study In The Context Of Islam And Hinduism

Author : Tariq Khan
Publisher : Laeeqahmad
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Release : 2023-01-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1805455028

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Environmental Ethics a Philosophical Study in the Context of Islam and Hinduism by Tariq Khan Pdf

The history of ethics, which starts about the period of 6 thcentury B.C., was entirely related to moral philosophy which has its own uniqueness and was divided into three periods. The medieval era of ethics started from 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D; the foremost subject of debate in the medieval times was its acceptance by early English positivists. After the medieval period we move to the illuminated times and proceed with Hobbes the father of modern ethics and this period started from 1500 A.D. onwards. After Hobbes the thoughts of English and German ethics have been distinguished. So because of that the English Intuitionists (naturalists) served by Utilitarian's got opposed to Kantian ethics but in the 19th century these have been discussed very furiously in Europe. The evolution concepts into physical sciences and development of ethics developed by Comte, Darwin, Spencer backed by Green made the impact of evolutionary concepts in 20thcentury also, but still shared amid Utilitarian's and Kantians (Kant's categorical Imperative).1 In ethical institution each period had its own special characteristics. In the Greek period the state shaped the background of the moral life, and who so ever performed his duties as a responsible citizens was regarded as a good man. The medieval period was dominated by Christian religion in Europe, so because of that the good moral life was identified with the holy religious point of view. In the modern life, morality is concerned with individual's rights and duties in order to free other individuals.

Author : Khan Tariq Rafeeq
Publisher : Kshitijsehrawatyt
Page : 154 pages
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Release : 2022-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798210216731

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Environmental Ethics A Philosophical Study with Reference to Islam and Hinduism by Khan Tariq Rafeeq Pdf

Introduction The history of ethics, which starts about the period of 6 thcentury B.C., was entirely related to moral philosophy which has its own uniqueness and was divided into three periods. The medieval era of ethics started from 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D; the foremost subject of debate in the medieval times was its acceptance by early English positivists. After the medieval period we move to the illuminated times and proceed with Hobbes the father of modern ethics and this period started from 1500 A.D. onwards. After Hobbes the thoughts of English and German ethics have been distinguished. So because of that the English Intuitionists (naturalists) served by Utilitarian's got opposed to Kantian ethics but in the 19th century these have been discussed very furiously in Europe. The evolution concepts into physical sciences and development of ethics developed by Comte, Darwin, Spencer backed by Green made the impact of evolutionary concepts in 20thcentury also, but still shared amid Utilitarian's and Kantians (Kant's categorical Imperative).1 In ethical institution each period had its own special characteristics. In the Greek period the state shaped the background of the moral life, and who so ever performed his duties as a responsible citizens was regarded as a good man. The medieval period was dominated by Christian religion in Europe, so because of that the good moral life was identified with the holy religious point of view. In the modern life, morality is concerned with individual's rights and duties in order to free other individuals.2 The term ethics has been derived from the Greek word ethikos which itself is derived from the Greek word Ethos, which means custom or character. The ethical behavior which is good in itself is considered good in philosophy. The area of ethics considers the concept of right as well as wrong behavior. The individual and societal desires and motivations does change but the concepts of right and wrong does not change as they are not referring to the given conditions, they are changeless.3 Ethics is the science of human behavior which deals with the right and wrong actions of a person. Ethics is considered as the normative science of human conduct which is made up of voluntary actions of a person. Conduct is composed of an inward and outward action of a person. Conduct does not include such activities of humans like blood circulation of which most of the people have no control, but it includes the voluntary actions of a person. Voluntary actions are such type of actions which are chosen by our conscious impetus, and includes willing and volitional of actions. In,

Author : Christopher G. Framarin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317918950

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Hinduism and Environmental Ethics by Christopher G. Framarin Pdf

This book argues that the standard arguments for and against the claim that certain Hindu texts and traditions attribute direct moral standing to animals and plants are unconvincing. It presents careful, extensive, and original interpretations of passages from the Manusmrti (law), the Mahābhārata (literature), and the Yogasūtra (philosophy), and argues that these texts attribute direct moral standing to animals and plants for at least three reasons: they are sentient, they are alive, and they possess a range of other relevant attributes and abilities. This book is of interest to scholars of Hinduism and the environment, religion and the environment, Hindu and/or Buddhist philosophy more broadly, and environmental ethics.

Author : E. Ehlers,Carl Friedrich Gethmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662070581

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Environment across Cultures by E. Ehlers,Carl Friedrich Gethmann Pdf

Disparate perceptions and conceptual frameworks of environment and the relationship between humans and nature often lead to confusion, constraints on co-operation and collaboration and even conflict when society tries to deal with today’s urgent and complex environment research and policy challenges. Such disparities in perception and "world view" are driven by many factors. They include differences in culture, religion, ethical frameworks, scientific methodologies and approaches, disciplines, political, social and philosophical traditions, life styles and consumption patterns as well as alternative economic paradigms. Distribution of poverty or wealth between north and south may thus be seen as consequence of the above mentioned disparities, which is a challenge for it’s universal reasoned evaluation. This volume discusses a wide range of factors influencing "Environment across Cultures" with a view to identifying ways and means to better understand, reflect and manage such disparities within future global environmental research and policy agendas for bridging the gap between ecology and economy as well as between societies. The book is based upon the results of a scientific symposium on this topic and covers the following sections: Cross Cultural Perception of Environment; Ethics and Nature; Environment, Sustainability and Society. Corresponding contributions were made by well-known scientific authors representing different cultural spheres in accordance with the inter-cultural approach of this effort.

Author : David Landis Barnhill,Roger S. Gottlieb
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791491058

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Deep Ecology and World Religions by David Landis Barnhill,Roger S. Gottlieb Pdf

Bringing together thirteen new essays on the important relationship between traditional world spirituality and the contemporary environmental perspective of deep ecology, this landmark book explores parallels and contrasts between religious values and those proposed by deep ecology. In examining how deep ecologists and the various religious traditions can both learn from and critique one another, the following traditions are considered: indigenous cultures, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Catholicism, Islam, Protestantism, Christian ecofeminism, and New Age spirituality.

Author : Meera Baindur
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788132223580

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Nature in Indian Philosophy and Cultural Traditions by Meera Baindur Pdf

Working within a framework of environmental philosophy and environmental ethics, this book describes and postulates alternative understandings of nature in Indian traditions of thought, particularly philosophy. The interest in alternative conceptualizations of nature has gained significance after many thinkers pointed out that attitudes to the environment are determined to a large extent by our presuppositions of nature. This book is particularly timely from that perspective. It begins with a brief description of the concept of nature and a history of the idea of nature in Western thought. This provides readers with a context to the issues around the concept of nature in environmental philosophy, setting a foundation for further discussion about alternate conceptualizations of nature and their significance. In particular, the work covers a wide array of textual and non-textual sources to link and understand nature from classical Indian philosophical perspectives as well as popular understandings in Indian literary texts and cultural practices. Popular issues in environmental philosophy are discussed in detail, such as: What is ‘nature’ in Indian philosophy? How do people perceive nature through landscape and mythological and cultural narratives? In what ways is nature sacred in India? To make the discussion relevant to contemporary readers, the book includes a section on the ecological and ethical implications of some philosophical concepts and critical perspectives on alternate conceptualizations of nature.

Author : O. P. Dwivedi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Environmental ethics
ISBN : UOM:39015038105071

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Environmental ethics by O. P. Dwivedi Pdf

Author : Rita D. Sherma,Purushottama Bilimoria
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030793012

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Religion and Sustainability: Interreligious Resources, Interdisciplinary Responses by Rita D. Sherma,Purushottama Bilimoria Pdf

This volume brings sustainability studies into creative and constructive conversation with actions, practices, and worldviews from religion and theology supportive of the vision and work of the UN SDGs. It features more than 30 chapters from scholars across diverse disciplines, including economics, ethics, theology, sociology, ritual studies, and visual culture. This interdisciplinary content presents new insights for inhibiting ecospheric devastation, which is inextricably linked to unsustainable financial, societal, racial, geopolitical, and cultural relationships. The chapters show how humanistic elements can enable the establishment of sustainable ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. This includes the aesthetic and emotive dimensions of life. The contributors cover such topics as empowering women and girls to systemically reverse climate change; nurturing interreligious peace; decolonizing landscapes; and promoting horticulture, ecovillages, equity, and animal ethics. Coverage integrates a variety of religious and theological perspectives. These include Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, and other traditions. To enable the restoration and flourishing of the ecosystems of the biosphere, human societies need to be reimagined and reordered in terms of economic, cultural, religious, racial, and social equitability. This volume illustrates transformative paradigms to help foster such change. It introduces new principles, practices, ethics, and insights to the discourse. This work will appeal to students, scholars, and professionals researching the ethical, moral, social, cultural, psychological, developmental, and other social scientific impacts of religion on the key markers of sustainability.

Author : Jay Prakash Tiwari
Publisher : K.K. Publications
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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ECOLOGY, COMMUNICATION AND ENVIRONMENT by Jay Prakash Tiwari Pdf

ECOLOGY, COMMUNICATION AND ENVIRONMENT: Perspectives of the Vedic Philosophy This book attempts to relate the environmental problems with patterns of our communication with nature. It is a comparative study of the Judaeo-Christian and Vedic worldviews and their articulations in the human communication with nonhuman world. The author explores the Vedic cosmology, metaphysics, concepts of Rta, dharma and yajna and extracts and systematizes them into the pattern of human communication with the nonhuman world with reference to the environmental ethics. So far as I know this is a unique work in the area of Vedic environmental philosophy. I hope the book will provide some valuable insights and it will inspire further studies in the area of Vedic environmental philosophy.

Author : Purushottama Bilimoria,Amy Rayner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781003817390

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The Routledge Companion to Indian Ethics by Purushottama Bilimoria,Amy Rayner Pdf

This companion volume focuses on the application and practical ramifications of Indian ethics. Here Indian dharma ethics is moved from its preeminent religious origins and classical metaethical proclivity to, what Kant would call, practical reason – or in Aristotle’s poignant terms, ēhikos and phronēis –and in more modern parlance normative ethics. Our study examines a wide range of social and normative challenges facing people in such diverse areas as women’s rights, infant ethics, politics, law, justice, bioethics and ecology. As a contemporary volume, it builds linkages between existing theories and emerging moral issues, problems and questions in today’s India in the global arena. The volume brings together contributions from some 40 philosophers and contemporary thinkers on practical ethics, exploring both the scope and boundaries or limits of ethics as applied to everyday and real-life concerns and socio-economic challenges facing India in the context of a troubled globalizing world. As such, this collection draws on multiple forms of writing and research, including narrative ethics, interviews, critical case studies and textual analyses. The book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students of Indian philosophy, Indian ethics, women and infant issues, social justice, environmental ethics, bioethics, animal ethics and cross-cultural responses to dominant Western moral thought. It will also be useful to researchers working on the intersection of Gandhi, sustainability, ecology, theology, feminism, comparative philosophy and dharma studies.

Author : Paul Chilton,Monika Kopytowska
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190636661

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Religion, Language, and the Human Mind by Paul Chilton,Monika Kopytowska Pdf

What is religion? How does it work? Many natural abilities of the human mind are involved, and crucial among them is the ability to use language. This volume brings together research from linguistics, cognitive science and neuroscience, as well as from religious studies, to understand the phenomena of religion as a distinctly human enterprise. The book is divided into three parts, each part preceded by a full introductory chapter by the editors that discusses modern scientific approaches to religion and the application of modern linguistics, particularly cognitive linguistics and pragmatics. Part I surveys the development of modern studies of religious language and the diverse disciplinary strands that have emerged. Beginning with descriptive approaches to religious language and the problem of describing religious concepts across languages, chapters introduce the turn to cognition in linguistics and also in theology, and explore the brain's contrasting capacities, in particular its capacity for language and metaphor. Part II continues the discussion of metaphor - the natural ability by which humans draw on basic knowledge of the world in order to explore abstractions and intangibles. Specialists in particular religions apply conceptual metaphor theory in various ways, covering several major religious traditions-Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism. Part III seeks to open up new horizons for cognitive-linguistic research on religion, looking beyond written texts to the ways in which language is integrated with other modalities, including ritual, religious art, and religious electronic media. Chapters in Part III introduce readers to a range of technical instruments that have been developed within cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis in recent years. What unfolds ultimately is the idea that the embodied cognition of humans is the basis not only of their languages, but also of their religions.

Author : Forrest Clingerman,Mark H. Dixon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317080411

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Placing Nature on the Borders of Religion, Philosophy and Ethics by Forrest Clingerman,Mark H. Dixon Pdf

The natural world has been "humanized": even areas thought to be wilderness bear the marks of human impact. But this human impact is not simply physical. At the emergence of the environmental movement, the focus was on human effects on "nature." More recently, however, the complexity of the term "nature" has led to fruitful debates and the recognition of how human individuals and cultures interpret their environments. This book furthers the dialogue on religion, ethics, and the environment by exploring three interrelated concepts: to recreate, to replace, and to restore. Through interdisciplinary dialogue the authors illuminate certain unique dimensions at the crossroads between finding value, creating value, and reflecting on one's place in the world. Each of these terms has diverse religious, ethical, and scientific connotations. Each converges on the ways in which humans both think about and act upon their surroundings. And each radically questions the damaging conceptual divisions between nature and culture, human and environment, and scientific explanation and religious/ethical understanding. This book self-consciously reflects on the intersections of environmental philosophy, environmental theology, and religion and ecology, stressing the importance of how place interprets us and how we interpret place. In addition to its contribution to environmental philosophy, this work is a unique volume in its serious engagement with theology and religious studies on the issues of ecological restoration and the meaning of place.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8192429105

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Environmental Ethics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Donlin-Smith,Muhammad Shafiq
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781527512078

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Nature and the Environment in Contemporary Religious Contexts by Thomas Donlin-Smith,Muhammad Shafiq Pdf

This collection of essays discusses the human relationship with, and responsibilities toward, the natural environment from the perspective of religions and the social sciences. The chapters examine a variety of conditions that have contributed to the contemporary environmental crisis, including abuse of power, economic greed, industrialization, deforestation, and unplanned waste management. They then discuss concepts from several different religious texts and traditions that promote environmental protection as a sacred moral duty for all humanity. Religious concepts such as dharma (duty toward Mother Earth), tikkun Olam (repair of the world), khalifa (people as deputies of God on earth), amanah (the universe as a trust in human hands), and paticca samuppada (dependent co-arising) are employed to argue that all the components of the biosphere are integral to the cosmos, each piece with its own value and role in the harmony of the whole. The book makes it clear that religions can become more “green” and play a helpful role in raising our ecological consciousness and supporting preservation of the environment into the future.

Author : Pankaj Jain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317151593

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Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities by Pankaj Jain Pdf

In Indic religious traditions, a number of rituals and myths exist in which the environment is revered. Despite this nature worship in India, its natural resources are under heavy pressure with its growing economy and exploding population. This has led several scholars to raise questions about the role religious communities can play in environmentalism. Does nature worship inspire Hindus to act in an environmentally conscious way? This book explores the above questions with three communities, the Swadhyaya movement, the Bishnoi, and the Bhil communities. Presenting the texts of Bishnois, their environmental history, and their contemporary activism; investigating the Swadhyaya movement from an ecological perspective; and exploring the Bhil communities and their Sacred Groves, this book applies a non-Western hermeneutical model to interpret the religious traditions of Indic communities. With a foreword by Roger S Gottlieb.