November 21, 2017

Globalization
Javier Ismael Morales lvarez #729480

Act. 11 Reflection, caring for Earth

Teacher: Melvin Moses Duke

Delivery Date: November 21, 2017

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Introduction

With our latest attitude towards the environment and the big challenges we face

we need a change in our perspective towards nature and how we deal with

worldwide issues such as global warming and the greenhouse effect. This essay

will deal with the philosophy of Leonardo Boff who is a Brasilian thinker (he says

that we should use care as an instrument in order to overcome our ecological and

social crisis).

In this brief document I will expose some of my insights and opinions about how

his ideology can help us and some of the pros and negatives of his thinking, also I

will give a conclusion where I take the information learned form the document and

give a little summary of the topic exposed.

Personal Reflection

I really liked Leonardo Boffs essay I also agree that there is a huge need for chan-

ge in our society in respect to ecological issues, the evidence is clear with the cha-

llenges we face for our perspective future and I dont think we are doing enough

to make a real change, peoples perspective is changing but what we need right

now is radical change because we dont have much time to revert the damage

done to Earth.

His philosophy has a lot of deeper meaning and I like how he feels about our so-

ciety and how we have become much more materialistic and shallow, we are for-

getting to respect Earth since it is our only place to live we cannot afford to keep

treating it like our personal garbage can.

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Conclusion

Boff goes way beyond only explaining in a simple way our ecological problems, he

defines all of them as also being a problem within ourselves, we need to treat this

problems as if they were our own personal ones, we have lost our espiritual vincu-

lation with the world and only if we treat them as our own problems will we be

able to make real change as it would become one with us.

The author relates this idea with the three currents of fundamental thinking: Philo-

sophical (Plato, Heidegger, Pascal, Schleiermacher), Psychological (Freud, Jung,

Adler, Rogers) and Genetic Biology (Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg). As I stated

previously Boff states that we have to fell as part of Earth since this comes with a

greater sense of responsibility, this would not only make us act because society

asks us to but it would be in our conscience to help.

I really enjoyed this read and I think his philosophy would be very helpful if people

adopted it, in my opinion it is a bit radical but not radical with violence and ag-

gressiveness it is radical with its ideas, it seems a little bit crazy because we are

nothing like this in our society everyone works for himself and doesnt care about

the rest.

The current ecological spectrum is like this because we are in a extreme situation

and we just cant wrap our heads around it. Boffs ideology suggests a complete

reformation in our philosophy of life and how we interact with ourselves and the

world and this is a really good way to go, it may not work 100% with everyone but

we can start by making a little bit of change one step at a time

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References

-Boff, Leonardo. El cuidado esencial: tica de lo humano, compasin por la Tierra.

Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 2002. pp. 24-25.

-Robert J. McShea Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol. 39, No. 3

(Mar., 1979), pp. 386-401

-Hope May, Aristotle's Ethics: Moral Development and Human Nature, Continuum,

2010, 189pp., $120.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780826491107.

-12 House, Ron, and House, Gitie. A New Way Needs a New Foundation: The Prin-

ciple of Goodness, Law, and Society.