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On Taoist Ecology for Climate Crisis and Ecological Turning

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2022, (40), pp.1~18
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2022..40.001
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : October 30, 2022
  • Accepted : November 30, 2022
  • Published : November 30, 2022

Kim, Baeg-Hee 1

1한국학중앙연구원

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ABSTRACT

In Holistic theory of organisms, Taoism's worldview is similar to the ecological one. Taoism hold that Nature and Human society are connected with opposites. As all things in the universe we are connected with others in the great circle of Cosmic life. Everything in the universe is made up of the same substance as Qi energy(氣). A number of ecological sentences in Taoist texts encouraging respect for the Nature and environmental circumstances of all things. human being as all things is itself in its responsive attunement with the fluidity of natural process. All thing is one as same substance. each single being is potentially in accord with and complete in itself. Therefore all things in the universe are equal without discrimination The holism of Taoism is the dynamic interconnectedness of particulars. Human beings have no element of superiority to natural objects. There is self-generative logic of things, which is inherently naturalistic and environmental in cosmic fluid. These are the ecological characteristics of Taoism.

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