Dialogue and Universalism

Volume 18, Issue 11/12, 2008

Philosophy of Nature Today

Lidia V. Fesenkova, Aleksandr V. Pankratov
Pages 75-86

The Noospheric Mode of Thinking and Modern Philosophy of Nature

The authors investigate the contemporary idea of noosphere (the conceptual and ideological basis for considering the coming ecological crisis). The authors arrive at the conclusion that the concept of human plays the central role in ecology as all the ecological problems rest upon the problem of mankind’s moral imperative. Therefore the authors claim, applying among others Vernadsky’s views, that the idea of human in the field of ecology should be today revised.