Putting Philosophy to Work: Toward an Ecological Civilization (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781940447339)

Change your thinking; change the world . . .Philosophy has gotten a bad rap. As an academic discipline, it is mocked as irrelevant to modern society. But bias against philosophy doesn't mean we don't have one. We all have a basic worldview. This is as true for whole civilizations as for individuals, a point driven home daily as the dire consequences of the Western worldview-the most urgent being climate change-are now inescapable. But if Western philosophy has brought us to this razor's edge, would another one be any better? The twelve contributors to this book argue, yes: the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.But what is process philosophy? This book is designed not only to answer the what, but also to demonstrate the how and why-how process philosophy provides a practical answer to so many of the potentially catastrophic issues now facing us, and why it is so urgently needed.

Author: Wm Andrew Schwartz, John B. Cobb Jr
ISBN-10: 194044733X
ISBN-13: 9781940447339
Publisher: Riverhouse LLC
Language: English
Published: 04/22/2018
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.64d