Environmental crisis as the final stage of the evolution of culture

• Authors: Zuzana Škorpíková
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses possible ways of overcoming the environmental crisis. It is based on Šmajs’ evolutionary ontological understanding of the environmental crisis of nature, which distinguishes between natural and cultural evolution and demonstrates the opposing relationships between them. It critically develops one of Šmajs’ proposals for initiating a biophilic transformation of culture by dealing with some of the consequences of the economic crisis (specifically unemployment).

Keywords

EN

nature; culture; evolution; environmental crisis

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 507-517

Dates

published

2013-10-01

online

2013-09-28

Contributors

author

Zuzana Škorpíková

• Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

References

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• [3] Šmajs, J., Krob, J. (2003). Evoluční ontologie. [Evolutionary Ontology]. Brno: Masarykova univerzita.
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• [6] Šmajs, J. (2013). “How Will the Promethean Myth End?” (manuscript).

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s13374-013-0145-1