Reclaiming Our Moral Agency through Healing: A Call to Moral, Social, Environmental Activists

Autor/in	Bai, Heesoon
Titel	Reclaiming Our Moral Agency through Healing: A Call to Moral, Social, Environmental Activists
Quelle	In: Journal of Moral Education, 41 (2012) 3, S.311-327 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7240
DOI	10.1080/03057240.2012.691628
Schlagwörter	Ethical Instruction; Altruism; Environmental Education; Moral Values; Activism; Conservation (Environment); Alienation; Psychological Patterns; Asian Culture; Philosophy; Imagery; Buddhism; Religion + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethics instruction; Teaching of ethics; Ethikunterricht; Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Entfremdung; Philosophie; Metaphorik; Buddhismus
Abstract	This paper makes the case that environmental education needs to be taken up as a moral education to the extent that we see the connection between harm and destruction in the environment and harm and destruction within human individuals and their relationship, and proceeds to show this connection by introducing the key notion of human alienation and its psychological factors of wounding, dissociation or split, self and other oppression and exploitation, all of which result in compromised moral agency. To this end, the paper further makes the case that we need to replace the culture of alienation with a culture of healing and reclamation of fundamental humanity manifest as compassion and wisdom, and presents an ideal of moral agency that would emerge when all parts and dimensions of one's being--body-mind-heart-energetics--are aligned, attuned and integrated, having healed from the body-mind split, mind-heart split, body-spirit split and mind-matter split. Concepts and imagery borrowed from Asian philosophies, such as Buddhism and Daoism, are offered as illustrative resources for the project of reclaiming uncompromised moral agency and its manifestation through compassion and wisdom. These concepts include "hungry ghosts," "bodhicitta," "sunyata" and "wu-wei." (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10