1. Oriental Perspectives on Environmental Ethics
According to a German philosopher, Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), philosophy is vis-a-vis to the Western orientation. ... No traces will be found that a Chinese philosopher will discuss or debate about monism, plurality or idealism. ... Western philosophy used reason in order to make religion more logical and acceptable to the inquiring mind. ... In Western philosophy, the idea of progress emerged in the period of Enlightenment. Enlightenment thinkers speculated that the society and humankind could improve because of man's rationalilty. ...
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