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Views on Biotic Nature and the Idea of Sustainable Development

Views on Biotic Nature and the Idea of Sustainable Development AbstractThe search for balance between humankind’s civilisational aspirations and the durable protection of nature is conditioned by contemporaneous views of biotic nature. Of particular importance in this regard are physiocentric and physiological views that may be set against one another. The first of these was presented by Hans Jonas, the second by Lothar Schäfer. This paper does not confine itself to setting one view against the other, but rather sets minimum conditions for cooperation between their promoters in the interests of balance between the aspirations of the present generation and those of future generations. Both views of nature are in their own way conducive to a break with the illusion present in some areas of the modern natural sciences - that nature is a boundless area of are inexhaustible resources. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Papers on Global Change IGBP de Gruyter

Views on Biotic Nature and the Idea of Sustainable Development

Papers on Global Change IGBP , Volume 24 (1): 12 – Dec 20, 2017

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Publisher
de Gruyter
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© 2018
ISSN
1730-802X
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1730-802X
DOI
10.1515/igbp-2017-0003
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Abstract

AbstractThe search for balance between humankind’s civilisational aspirations and the durable protection of nature is conditioned by contemporaneous views of biotic nature. Of particular importance in this regard are physiocentric and physiological views that may be set against one another. The first of these was presented by Hans Jonas, the second by Lothar Schäfer. This paper does not confine itself to setting one view against the other, but rather sets minimum conditions for cooperation between their promoters in the interests of balance between the aspirations of the present generation and those of future generations. Both views of nature are in their own way conducive to a break with the illusion present in some areas of the modern natural sciences - that nature is a boundless area of are inexhaustible resources.

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Papers on Global Change IGBPde Gruyter

Published: Dec 20, 2017

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