2005
DOI: 10.1007/s10746-005-4190-6
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Gadamer and the Otherness of Nature: Elements for an Environmental Education

Abstract: In this work I search for elements that contribute to the development of the ethical dimension of environmental education. I start with the existence of what C.A. Bowers calls "areas of silence" in the curriculum in both schools and universities. The reason for this silence, I argue, is to be found in the Cartesian conceptual structures of curricula. I suggest that the works of Bacon, Galileo and Descartes provoke a twofold process that I have termed the forgetting of tradition and objectification of nature. A… Show more

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“…Gadamer (2015) preconizou a ideia de que o ser humano vive na linguagem e nela realiza a própria experiência, assim, investiga a estrutura que inscreve o ser humano nesse processo. Conforme Grün (2005), Gadamer desempenhou um papel central na mudança de uma filosofia da consciência para uma dimensão histórico-linguística da compreensão.…”
Section: Uma Incursão Pela Hermenêutica Em Direção à Educação Ambientalunclassified
“…Gadamer (2015) preconizou a ideia de que o ser humano vive na linguagem e nela realiza a própria experiência, assim, investiga a estrutura que inscreve o ser humano nesse processo. Conforme Grün (2005), Gadamer desempenhou um papel central na mudança de uma filosofia da consciência para uma dimensão histórico-linguística da compreensão.…”
Section: Uma Incursão Pela Hermenêutica Em Direção à Educação Ambientalunclassified
“…Knowledge is only possible when we are safeguarding “the otherness of what we seek to understand” (Grün, 2005). When we are looking at criminals’ motivations, we could then create categories, which do not necessarily represent their whole mindset.…”
Section: Financial Crimes and The Challenge Of Understandingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It does not take much imagination to extend this to the appreciation of landscapes. Reflecting on Martin Buber’s philosophy of dialogue, Grün (2005) points out that this enables a move from the instrumental ‘I–It’ relation towards nature to an ‘I–Thou’ relation: ‘Nature is an Other that addresses us. The voice of this other constitutes then an area of hermeneutic understanding’ (p. 164).…”
Section: Becoming Landscapementioning
confidence: 99%