Views on Biotic Nature and the Idea of Sustainable Development

Łepko Zbigniew ()
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Łepko Zbigniew: Institute of Ecology and Bioethics Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw ul. Wóycickiego 1/3, 01-938 Warszawa, Poland

Papers on Global Change IGBP, 2017, vol. 24, issue 1, 25-36

Abstract: The 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.

Keywords: biotic nature; humankind’s civilisational aspirations; physiocentric and physiological views (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/igbp-2017-0003

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