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A Philosophical View of the Ocean and HumanityAn Attempt to Connect to the Ocean

A Philosophical View of the Ocean and Humanity: An Attempt to Connect to the Ocean [In this chapter, the first connection with the ocean is through a dream image of a dead seabird that had ingested plastics. The senseless killing of a seabird is the theme of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge, illustrating how killing an albatross brought isolation and death in life. The image of the dead seabird can be interpreted as a metaphor for our dysfunctional state of mind, with environmental problems being seen as mental problems. The chapter concludes that humans need help to think more broadly about the ocean.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Philosophical View of the Ocean and HumanityAn Attempt to Connect to the Ocean

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-36679-7
Pages
9 –11
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-36680-3_2
Publisher site
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Abstract

[In this chapter, the first connection with the ocean is through a dream image of a dead seabird that had ingested plastics. The senseless killing of a seabird is the theme of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge, illustrating how killing an albatross brought isolation and death in life. The image of the dead seabird can be interpreted as a metaphor for our dysfunctional state of mind, with environmental problems being seen as mental problems. The chapter concludes that humans need help to think more broadly about the ocean.]

Published: Feb 4, 2020

Keywords: Ocean; Coastal seas; Climate change; Environmental change; Connecting science and the arts; Sustainability; Oceanography; Psychology; Philosophy

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