Original scientific paper

TREE AND MAN

Nikola Visković ; Faculty of Law, Split

Abstract

This paper presents the role of a tree in human material and spiritual culture, is the break of the dominant oblivion of the value of nature in social sciences in today's extremely anthropocentric bioethics. After pointing at the importance of animal world in human culture and at the fact that it is seriously endangered and in need of protection in the book "Animal and Man", in this study the author approaches the same tasks regarding the vegetal world — restricting himself to trees as its very important segment. This text, in the first place, shows proportions and causes of the oblivion of vegetal world, in the second place, important roles of plants in biosphere and, finally, the roles of trees and their products in material civilization — starting from its use in alimentation to the use in production, housing and funeral practice.

Keywords

animal world; anthropocentrism; bioethics; biosphere; human culture; material civilization; vegetal world

Hrčak ID:

141549

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/141549

Publication date:

15.9.1997.

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