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
Publication date:
15.9.1997.
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