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THE AWARENESS OF SLOVENIANS ON THE RELATION TOWARDS GOD, NATURE, ENVIRONMENT AND SCIENCE
Andrej Kirn
; Sveučilišni profesor u miru, Ljubljana
Sažetak
The article deals with responds on some issues present in the Slovenian general public during the years 2000/2, specifically: the relation towards nature, towards god, towards evolutional thesis on the origin of man, towards environmental omnipotence of a modern science, towards priorities of environmental values and towards the relation between modern way of living and the degradation of environment. The establishment of independent state after the dissolution of Yugoslavia represents a new political, economic and legislative framework of resolving environmental problems for Slovenia. Slovenians have the opinion that out of eleven regions the environmental work will be most profitable with their membership in the European Union.
In relation towards nature, the most acceptable standpoint for Slovenians is that the issue of nature is significant, but it is not a spiritual, nor sacred (42.8 %). The variable of the opinion is statistically significant for some of their responses, although its influence is sometimes hard or almost impossible to be explained. 42.7 % of the interviewed agree with the fact that there is too much trust in science, and too little towards feelings and beliefs. Although the quantity of those not being acquainted is occasionally frightening, this does not have to be the excuse for its being excluded from solving environmental problems. The knowledge of local people should be treated with respect. Today the science and its use reached such a developmental degree that the axiom that knowledge is always better than ignorance becomes questionable. The disagreement with such opinion prevails, that modern science will resolve all environmental problems, without the need to change the way of living. Anthropocentric pro–environmental paradigm could be seen as obvious in many opinions.
Ključne riječi
nature; god; faith; origin of man; modern science; modern way of living; environmental values
Hrčak ID:
141326
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Datum izdavanja:
15.9.2001.
Posjeta: 1.427 *