Open AccessCONCERNING THE PROBLEM OF PHILOSOPHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTALLY EXPLICATED OUTLOOK
Author(s) -
Sergey Myakinnikov
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
vestnik kemerovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. seriâ: gumanitarnye i obŝestvennye nauki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2541-9145
pISSN - 2542-1840
DOI - 10.21603/2542-1840-2017-2-82-86
Subject(s) - holism , environmentalism , anthropocentrism , epistemology , sociology , organicism , teleology , ecological crisis , environmental ethics , ecology , philosophy , political science , politics , law , biology
The article is devoted to the methodology of formation of the ecologically interpreted outlook, different kinds of which determine the formation and resolution of environmental problems. The author makes an attempt to develop methodological tools to research the ecological components of social outlook and the concept of highly ecological, holistic worldview (the worldview of ecocentrism), as opposed to the atomic technocratic worldview of anthropocentrism, which fundamentally denies nature. As a major methodological tool of constructing this methodology, the principle of ecological holism was selected, where holism is interpreted as complex (in the absence of organization in the system) or systemic, and where ecological holism is interpreted as environmentalism, involving completeness and integrity of views on the relationship between society and nature. The article puts forward the idea that environmentalism is a variant of holism. The novelty and the heuristic of the author's approach is in the attempt to explicate the component of the ecological worldview as an environmental outlook represented in the form of varieties of the not-ecological worldview and the worldview of ecocentrism, which is truly holistic. The significance of the results lies in the attempt to identify and explain the origins of environmental problems in the individual psyche, generalized opinions of people on their relationship with nature, in the consciousness of society, and in pointing out the conditions, means, ways of formation and implementation of corresponding to the nature worldview as a guarantor of the settlement of these problems. A philosophical representation of the concept of environmental philosophy and methodology of his study is a contribution to the further development of the new ideological paradigm and the subject of the new environmental philosophy. It is highly necessary to develop and introduce the research methodology of the ecologically oriented worldview phenomenon into philosophical issues for the formation of environmental values and for resolving the global ecocrisis.