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New Ecological Equilibrium: A Perspective for Our Long Conversion Journey
Full text linkThrough the encyclical letter Laudato Si’, Pope Francis launched integral ecology as a new paradigm to solve the global ecological crises. The most fundamental challenge identified was that the awareness of the fact that everything is connected should be chosen by those who are trusted to design pastoral leadership formation within the Church to implement the above new paradigm.In line with the spirit of Laudato Si’, awareness should be understood as the opening of mind, heart, and will that will enable the development of new convictions, attitudes, and forms of life toward creating a new equilibrium. In this paper, five guidelines are proposed to be used in designing an appropriate pastoral leadership formation
George Ghanotakis' Growing Up Wise: Questions & Answers – Philosophy for Young People and Educating for Wisdom in the 21st Century
No full textExploring the Philosophy of Development through Uexküll’s Notion of Umwelt
No full textThis paper aims to depict the development of human beings as a transformative relationship between individuals and their world. Anchored on Uexküll’s concept of the environment, “Umwelt,” and further developed through the works of Heidegger, Kokubun, and Merleau-Ponty, I present the relationship between man and the world through the formation of the world and the movement of organisms between Umwelts. For Heidegger, humans live while forming their own world whereas animals can only be “poor in world.” Kokubun further emphasizes that human beings live while moving through various Umwelts. But according to Merleau-Ponty, human bodies reconfigure their fields of action, and through this, new meanings are conceived. As a result of the movement of humans through different Umwelts, humans also transform themselves accordingly. Human development, therefore, is a dynamic process ofinteraction between humans and their world
