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Environmental Consciousness, Sustainability, and the Character of Philosophy of Education

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cam.issuedOnline2016-11-12
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dc.contributor.authorBonnett, Michael
dc.contributor.orcidBonnett, Michael [0000-0002-2038-2435]
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-03T12:16:44Z
dc.date.available2017-02-03T12:16:44Z
dc.date.issued2017-05
dc.description.abstractThis paper argues that education itself, properly understood, is intimately concerned with an individual’s being in the world, and therefore is ineluctably environmental. This is guaranteed by the ecstatic nature of consciousness. Furthermore, it is argued that a central dimension of this environment with which ecstatic human consciousness is engaged, is that of $\textit{nature}$ understood as the ‘self-arising’. Nature, so conceived, is essentially $\textit{other}$ and is epistemologically mysterious, possessing its own normativity, agency, and intrinsic value. As such, engagement with nature presents opportunities for consciousness quintessentially to go beyond itself, to be inspired and refreshed, and to receive non-anthropogenic standards in the form of intimations of what is fitting and what is not. It will be argued that these are fundamental to the orientation of human being, providing primordial intimations of the nature of reality and truth. Given their centrality to the idea of a person’s becoming educated, the elucidation of these and the issues to which they give rise must be central to the philosophy of education and in this sense it becomes deeply ecological.
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.7539
dc.identifier.eissn1573-191X
dc.identifier.issn0039-3746
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/262286
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC
dc.publisher.urlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11217-016-9556-x
dc.subjectenvironmental consciousness
dc.subjectsustainability
dc.subjectnature
dc.subjecthuman being
dc.subjectscientism
dc.subjectmetaphysics of mastery
dc.subjectphilosophy of education
dc.titleEnvironmental Consciousness, Sustainability, and the Character of Philosophy of Education
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2016-10-28
prism.endingPage347
prism.publicationDate2017
prism.publicationNameStudies in Philosophy and Education
prism.startingPage333
prism.volume36
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2017-05
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Review
rioxxterms.versionVoR
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1007/s11217-016-9556-x

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