We celebrate World Philosophy Day is celebrated this year on November 18.
HISTORY OF WORLD PHILOSOPHY DAY
Philosophy delves into the concepts of existence, knowledge, values, the mind, language, and reason and has evolved throughout history. Philosophy has certainly shaped our present world and will mold and transform our future world’s societies. Therefore, it is only befitting that UNESCO institutionalized World Philosophy Day in 2005.
In 2007, UNESCO published a 726-page multilingual (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish) program and meeting document on the Records of the General Conference, 33rd session, Paris, 2005. This was the Proclamation of World Philosophy Day. In launching World Philosophy Day in 2005, UNESCO emphasized that philosophy is vital to young people and a discipline that inspires the objective analysis and evaluation of issues to make a judgment. World Philosophy Day boosts the development of independent critical rational thinking, which leads to an improved understanding of the world, encouraging peace and forbearance. The UNESCO General Conference in 2005 had the conviction that embedding the concept of World Philosophy Day in society would popularize philosophy, particularly in teaching it to the world.
So….
Philosophy and Nature
1, Aristotle defines a nature as “a source or cause of being moved and of being at rest in that to which it belongs primarily“. In other words, a nature is the principle within a natural raw material that is the source of tendencies to change or rest in a particular way unless stopped.
The study of natural philosophy seeks to explore the cosmos by any means necessary to understand the universe. Some ideas presuppose that change is a reality.
There are 7 branches of Philosophy, namely, Metaphysics, Axiology, Logic, Aesthetics, Epistemology, Ethics and Political Philosophy.
Environmental ethics is a branch of applied philosophy that studies the conceptual foundations of environmental values as well as more concrete issues surrounding societal attitudes, actions, and policies to protect and sustain biodiversity and ecological systems.
Before environmental ethics emerged as an academic discipline in the 1970s, some people were already questioning and rethinking our relationship to the natural world. Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, published in 1949, called upon humanity to expand our idea of community to include the entire natural world, grounding this approach in the belief that all of nature is connected and interdependent in important ways. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) drew attention to the dangers of what were then commonly used commercial pesticides. Carson’s essays drew attention to the far-reaching impacts of human activity and its potential to cause significant harm to the environment and to humanity in turn. These early works inspired the environmentalist movement and sparked debates about how to deal with emerging environmental challenges.
What do YOU think? How important is to ask questions about what we are doing to the environment? Surely humans have the fundamental right to exploit the Earth???
More information – please visit https://www.unesco.org/en/days/philosophy
