This essay outlines some of the key themes and ideas developed in above title. These include: influence scientism a "metaphysics mastery" late modern times; phenomenology nature that focusses on native "occurring" things nature; development notion environmental consciousness which sustainability is integral; an exploration what might be involved ecologizing education.

william chittick, currently professor of religious studies at the state university of new york (stony brook), is an internationally renowned expert on islamic thought. his contributions to the fields of sufism and islamic philosophy have helped paint a clearer picture of the intellectual and spiritual landscape of islamic civilization from the 7th/13th century onwards. yet chittick is not simpl...

This paper offers a critique of the critical realist (CR) interpretation of Friedrich Hayek’s famous essay Scientism and the Study of Society presented in Tony Lawson’s recent Economics and Reality. It is argued, contrary to Lawson’s reading, that Hayek’s social structures (1) do have an existence over and above the conceptions of the individual actors and (2) serve as a precondition for human ...

The origins of herbal therapeutics 1 The common origins of diet and medicine 1 Matters of taste 2 Shape-shifting 5 Food, medicine and pharmacology 7 Co-evolution 9 Wholeness and complexity 11 The development of herbal medicine as a practice 14 The nature of life is change 14 Ethnobotanical insights 17 In search of ‘the herbalist’ 18 Phytotherapy 21 The varieties of phytotherapy 21 Phytotherapy ...

This analysis of the introduction of racial theories to Brazil and their reception by Brazilian intellectuals in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries looks at miscegenation, racism, and whitening policies through the lenses of two novels that bear witness to the era's mentality: O cortiço (1890; A Brazilian tenement, 1976), by Aluísio Azevedo, and Canaã (1902; Canaan, 1920), by Graça A...