Symphony of Silences : A Journey Through a Multicentric World
Silence is also a message. It is also an opinion. This work attempts to voice a particular silence: the silence of others in ecological ethics. Concentric ecological ethics – a project known as the widening of the moral circle – is spellbound by the problem that it upholds a dualistic ontology with...
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ftoslouniv:oai:www.duo.uio.no:10852/32697 2023-05-15T17:08:19+02:00 Symphony of Silences : A Journey Through a Multicentric World Mueller, Martin Lee Espen Gamlund 2008 http://hdl.handle.net/10852/32697 http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-20562 eng eng http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-20562 Mueller, Martin Lee. Symphony of Silences. Masteroppgave, University of Oslo, 2008 http://hdl.handle.net/10852/32697 info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft.au=Mueller, Martin Lee&rft.title=Symphony of Silences&rft.inst=University of Oslo&rft.date=2008&rft.degree=Masteroppgave URN:NBN:no-20562 78872 121771504 Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/32697/2/SymphonyxofxSilences.pdf VDP::200 Master thesis Masteroppgave 2008 ftoslouniv 2020-06-21T08:46:15Z Silence is also a message. It is also an opinion. This work attempts to voice a particular silence: the silence of others in ecological ethics. Concentric ecological ethics – a project known as the widening of the moral circle – is spellbound by the problem that it upholds a dualistic ontology with humans in the center, and a so-called ‘environment’ in the periphery. This sweeping move perpetuates not only moral distinctions. It also continues to silence all those others with whom we inhabit the one world. This work offers an alternative to this project. It explores the possibility of a critical collaboration between a number of unifying holistic positions. These include holism proper, Ecosophy T, and multicentrism. A core argument of the thesis is this: It matters how we speak. A closer look at a number of common speaking practices reveals that others are not only being silenced in concentric ethics. They are also, more generally, being silenced through acts of defining. Such definitions isolate those who are defining from those who are being defined. They frustrate creative relationships that may spawn relevant meaning. Acts of defining are not only limited to the way we speak. A third section exposes how whales are being defined by a conventional whale watching tourism industry off Lofoten islands, Northern Norway. The argument this thesis works towards is that direct experience may help us not only to address the problem more clearly, but also to move beyond it. The final section offers phenomenology of perception as that school of thought which most successfully demystifies the old ontological boundaries, and points to new paths to go instead. Key Words: ecological ethics – holism – multicentrism – phenomenology – definition – language – relational language – killer whales – experience – horizon – place Master Thesis Lofoten Northern Norway Universitet i Oslo: Digitale utgivelser ved UiO (DUO) Lofoten Norway |
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Silence is also a message. It is also an opinion. This work attempts to voice a particular silence: the silence of others in ecological ethics. Concentric ecological ethics – a project known as the widening of the moral circle – is spellbound by the problem that it upholds a dualistic ontology with humans in the center, and a so-called ‘environment’ in the periphery. This sweeping move perpetuates not only moral distinctions. It also continues to silence all those others with whom we inhabit the one world. This work offers an alternative to this project. It explores the possibility of a critical collaboration between a number of unifying holistic positions. These include holism proper, Ecosophy T, and multicentrism. A core argument of the thesis is this: It matters how we speak. A closer look at a number of common speaking practices reveals that others are not only being silenced in concentric ethics. They are also, more generally, being silenced through acts of defining. Such definitions isolate those who are defining from those who are being defined. They frustrate creative relationships that may spawn relevant meaning. Acts of defining are not only limited to the way we speak. A third section exposes how whales are being defined by a conventional whale watching tourism industry off Lofoten islands, Northern Norway. The argument this thesis works towards is that direct experience may help us not only to address the problem more clearly, but also to move beyond it. The final section offers phenomenology of perception as that school of thought which most successfully demystifies the old ontological boundaries, and points to new paths to go instead. Key Words: ecological ethics – holism – multicentrism – phenomenology – definition – language – relational language – killer whales – experience – horizon – place |
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