Unearthing intentionality: Building transformative capacity by reclaiming consciousness

IF 2.2 2区 哲学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Environmental Values Pub Date : 2023-12-08 DOI:10.1177/09632719231175245
Benedikt Schmid, Iana Nesterova
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In transformation research of late, accounts on the relation between intentionality and agency on the one hand, and the more routinised and structured side of social co-existence on the other, are increasingly nuanced. However, we observe a deficiency in the way arguments are set up by the interlocutors: both, scholars who grant intentionality a central role and those who emphasise its limitations generally do so at the level of ontology – debating degrees of human capacity for conscious planning versus a largely unconscious reproduction. We wish to shift this question from an ontological to a pedagogical one, exploring possibilities to cultivate and learn intentionality. We do so by developing the concept of consciousness-in-nature that we derive from, and contextualise in, the traditions of deep ecology and (Westernised) Buddhism which both view human beings as inseparable from nature and one another. With consciousness-in-nature we refer to an understanding of humans as a part of nature that has developed the capacity for (self-) reflection and deliberation – a capacity that is not static or firm but can be nurtured and cultivated or clouded over and subdued. From this standpoint, we lay out an understanding of the role of (re)learning consciousness for processes of social change and explore potentials for its nurturing.
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发掘意向性:通过恢复意识培养变革能力
在最近的转型研究中,一方面是意向性和能动性之间的关系,另一方面是社会共存中更为常规和结构化的一面,这两者之间的关系越来越微妙。然而,我们观察到对话者建立论点的方式有一个缺陷:无论是承认意向性中心作用的学者,还是强调意向性局限性的学者,通常都是在本体论的层面上这样做的——辩论人类有意识计划的能力程度,还是在很大程度上无意识的繁殖。我们希望将这个问题从一个本体论的问题转变为一个教学的问题,探索培养和学习意向性的可能性。我们通过发展自然意识的概念来做到这一点,我们从深层生态学和(西方化的)佛教的传统中衍生出来,并将其置于背景中,这两个传统都认为人类与自然和彼此是不可分割的。对于自然意识,我们指的是将人类理解为自然的一部分,人类已经发展出(自我)反思和思考的能力——这种能力不是静态的或坚定的,而是可以培育和培养的,也可以被遮蔽和抑制。从这个角度出发,我们阐述了(再)学习意识在社会变革过程中的作用,并探索了培养它的潜力。
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期刊介绍: Environmental Values is an international peer-reviewed journal that brings together contributions from philosophy, economics, politics, sociology, geography, anthropology, ecology and other disciplines, which relate to the present and future environment of human beings and other species. In doing so we aim to clarify the relationship between practical policy issues and more fundamental underlying principles or assumptions.
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