AII Iiving is Meeting: A Buberian Approach To Environmental Ethics
Abstract
When we look around Thailand, we can see how our environment is deteriorating day by day due to human carelessness and his greed for wealth and comforts. As a teacher of ethics, I would like to bring out in this short research paper the ethical values involved in caring for environment. There is a growing awareness that world peace is threatened not only by the arms race or regional conflicts or continued injustices among peoples and nations, but also by a lack of due respect for nature. Humankind’s failure to relate to nature, failure to relate to its ecosystem with respect, is clearly reflected in the ongoing environmental crisis, which our newspapers daily speak of. The environmental crisis has been on the increase When I speak of environmental crisis has been on the increase. When I speak of environmental problems I refer to those problems that arise from human dealings with the natural world and its ecosystem. Human beings cannot help using and modifying the natural world, since we depend on nature for our food, clothing and shelter, for the water we drink and the air we breathe and so on, The unintended, often careless human actions are now creating problems like global warming, the extinction of multitudes of species of flora and fauna, the pollution of water sources are problems that raise profound issues regarding how we should live our lives and organize our societies, that were never encountered by previous generations (Attifield, 2003, p.1) As we look into our society’s future, we you and I – must avoid living only for today attitude by plundering the nature for our own convenience alone without thinking of tomorrow. We cannot risk our heath or that of our grandchildren by the destruction of our planet’s resources. Martin Buber, the Jewish philosopher and theologian, has advanced the philosophy of relationship in his book “I and Thou” (1929). In this paper I like to develop an environmental ethics based on his philosophy of dialogical relationship between man and nature. At present I am teaching ethics and I would like to know more about the ethics of environment, and how should we take care of it. I would like to use Martin Buber’s thought of I-Thou relationship in finding a solution to the problem of environment. In my opinion a complete environment ethic can be constructed using the philosophy of Buber.
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