Learning to Walk with Turtles: Steps towards a Sacred Perception of the Environment

Gustavo Ruiz Chiesa and Luz Gonçalves Brito

Environmental Values, 2022, vol. 31, issue 2, 177-192

Abstract: What can we learn from the open and attentive perception of children and poets? How does this perception contribute to a methodology that reaches the intricate entanglement of worldly phenomena in its entire otherness? In this essay, we aim to answer these questions, taking into account the phenomeno-logical grounds which lead us to achieve a singular state of perception and, therefore, a more crystal clear knowledge of the beings and things in the lived world. We seek to explore other forms of rationality and aesthetic sensibility, by considering poetic language and a phenomenological understanding of the environment. We argue for a modality of thought that encompasses the foundations of Goethe, Husserl, Bateson, Ingold, Leiris and Krishnamurti to collapse the dichotomy between person and environment.

Keywords: Apprenticeship; ecological epistemologies; education of attention; immanent sacred of nature; phenomenological methodologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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