By Casey Rentmeester
This booklet makes an attempt to envision the metaphysical underpinnings of our present environmental challenge, thereby viewing it from a philosophical point of view. utilizing Martin Heidegger’s writings at the heritage of being as its lynchpin, it examines how people have come to view nature as an incredible array of mere assets to be maximally exploited. Following Heidegger, Casey Rentmeester argues that this knowing of nature is rooted within the figuring out of what it ability
to be that took place in historic Greece. Rentmeester then makes use of parts of Heidegger’s post-metaphysical later philosophy and facets of early philosophical Daoism to create another method to take into consideration the relation among people and nature that's environmentally sustainable.
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