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Knyazeva, E. N.
The Strategy of Environmentally Safe Thinking in Terms of Jacob von Uexkull’s Unwelt Concept
// Philosophy and Culture.
2014. № 7.
P. 943-953.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=65285
Knyazeva, E. N. The Strategy of Environmentally Safe Thinking in Terms of Jacob von Uexkull’s Unwelt Concept
Abstract:
The article presents methodological grounds for developing modern strategies of environmentally safe
thinking based on the theory of biology and the theory of complex adaptive systems. Being a science about interaction
of living beings and their communities with the environment, today’s environmental studies go far beyond
the initial borders of biology and become the core discipline in the middle of perspective inter-disciplinary synthesis
of knowledge. The environmental approach appears to be quite usefully for researches of social studies and
humanities. Environmentally safe action, environmentally safe mind, environmentally safe life style, knowledge
and creative work, environmentally safe thought and word, environmentally safe ideas, environmentally safe communication
and environmentally safe management — all these conceptual theories prove that environmentally
safe thinking is becoming an important part of the humanities and social studies where it reveals possibilities for
new and fresh approaches. The author of the present research article describes the meaning and importance of
the term ‘Unwelt’ and the teaching about Unwelt (Umweltslehre) introduced by Jacob von Uexkull over 100 years
ago, for the development of modern environmental universalism and creation of strategic imperatives of environmentally
safe thinking. The concept of Unwelt as a specific world certain species and a particular living creature
are adjusted to became the inter-disciplinary platform for development of the theory of environmental studies and
achievement of a sensible position when discussing the sustainable development and sustainable future as well as
the role of education in the global sustainable development. To develop the environmentally safe thinking, Elena
Knyazeva has used the fundamental concepts of Jacob von Uexkull’s teaching about Unwelt as well as methodology
of the researches of complex systems. The scientific novelty of the research is in its inter-disciplinary nature and
application of theoretical biology, Uexkull’s teaching about Unwelt, theory of complex systems and newest terms of
cognitive science (in particular, dynamic co-emergence and inactivism) for the development of the theory of social
management and social forecasting (i.e. study of the future) and the concepts of sustainable development and
environmental ethics.
Keywords:
interdisciplinary synthesis of knowledge, complex systems, sustainable development, evolutionary thinking, environmental ethics, environmental universalism, environmental studies, Umwelt, Umweltslehre, sustainable future.
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