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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - REMARKS FROM ANTHROPOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW
Gerhard de Haan
; Freie Universitat, Berlin
Sažetak
In 1952 Arnold Gehlen put forth a thesis that we live in a world without a history, because nothing new can be expected. Utopian potentiality of the world society is exhausted. Gehlen has called such a situation "life in post-history". The author's main thesis follows Gehlen: if we are still not in a post-history, the concept of sustainable development gives a prescriptive grounds for that. The main intention of the paper is to discuss the background and the consequences of such a position.
The discussion develops through five steps. First of all, the author shows that the diagnosis: "we were living in the post-history", is actualized again in the concept of sustainable development. The consequence of "the world with no future", it is demonstrated on the second step, is that we can no more learn from the history. Third thesis is then valid as a basic lead in a discussion on sustainability. Sustainable economy is necessary because of the respect for future generations. The author's thesis is: the respect is hardly a carrying basis of the sustainability ethos. This leads to the forth step of the discussion: what is a civilisational and historic task of men and women if they are to overcome their own lifetime.
Finally, the author puts forth the arguments for the continuing of discussion on sustainable development, showing that the discussion was one-sided up to now.
Ključne riječi
anthropology; environmental education; pedagogy; sustainability ethos; sustainable development
Hrčak ID:
141392
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.9.1995.
Posjeta: 1.461 *