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SUMMARY:'Environmental concern\, moral education and our place in nature' 
 - Dr Michael Bonnett\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20120223T170000Z
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:Some strands of environmental concern invite a radical re-eval
 uation of many taken for granted assumptions of late modern ways of life 
 – particularly those that structure how we relate to the natural world. 
 This paper explores some of the implications of such a re-evaluation for o
 ur understanding of moral education by examining the significance of ideas
  of our place in nature that focus not on our location in some grand abstr
 act system\, but on our felt sense of place in the course of our daily exi
 stence.  It will be argued that exploration of the anticipatory and ecstat
 ic nature of such concrete emplacement reveals an underlying normative cha
 racter to our encounters with nature\, now experienced as an autonomous an
 d essentially mysterious non-human other that both sustains and is sustain
 ed by places – places in which find ourselves and live out our lives. It
  is argued that this view leads to both a questioning of anthropocentrism 
 (i.e.\, its metaphysical basis) and an acknowledgement of intrinsic value 
 in nature\, such that current mainstream understandings of the character o
 f moral sensibility and of moral education are no longer defensible. 
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, Ro
 om GS5
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