Environmental Education
Mansoor Shahvali; Fatemeh Khoshnami
Abstract
This study was carried out to test the necessity of the alignment between wisdom and transcendental decisiveness to solve environmental crises. Hence, collectine wisdom in the form ethical codes could not solely resolve these crises. In addition, cognitive scientists believe that some beliefs, especially ...
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This study was carried out to test the necessity of the alignment between wisdom and transcendental decisiveness to solve environmental crises. Hence, collectine wisdom in the form ethical codes could not solely resolve these crises. In addition, cognitive scientists believe that some beliefs, especially religious beliefs, play the same role; otherwise, scientific theories would not be able to manage environmental disasters. The alignment of ethical codes with common sense and transcendental decisiveness is the necessary condition for resolving environmental crises. Additionally, UNESCO, by end of the second millennium recommended the universities around the world to prepare in advance their students according to local epistemic to make sustainability happen in the 3thmillennium.Forthese reasons, a descriptive-survey research method was carried out among agricultural college students of Shiraz University. The results showed that the “ethical complex” including 4 ethical indexes which were used in this study, had strong correlation with students’ environmental ethics; as well as, students’ general environmental knowledge. These strong relationships confirm the necessity of considering science with intent and metaphysical cognition to manage environment disasters. To save time and costs, this “ethical complex” could be considered as a bench mark to study ethics in among the universities across the Country, periodically to find an Environmental Ethics Scale for Iranian Universities (EESIU).
Seyedeh Fatemeh Moezzi; Mansoor Shahvali; Razieh Namdar
Abstract
Environmental crises are one of the major challenges that the human community is facing. This study was conducted in response to the existence of environmental crises despite the establishment of related institutions and the comprehension of related concepts to sustainable development, and the evolution ...
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Environmental crises are one of the major challenges that the human community is facing. This study was conducted in response to the existence of environmental crises despite the establishment of related institutions and the comprehension of related concepts to sustainable development, and the evolution of the status of the environment and how human beings interact with it in Islamic thought. The purpose of this study, which has been accomplished using a descriptive method of documentary analysis, is to explain, analyze, and compare the three stages of logical, critical, and philosophical thinking of sustainable development. Criticism and analysis of existing perspectives indicate that, in addition to significant advances in the world and the establishment of international treaties, conventions and symposia on sustainability are not intended to preserve the environment and human survival and have a merely technical and material look, So far, it has not responded to the issues of development and sustainability. Therefore, achieving long-term sustainability horizons and their dimensions requires a deeper perspective and beyond purely technical issues and secular science. This study suggests philosophical thinking that is based on Islamic ethics and philosophy and emphasizes the study of environmental crises with the simultaneous help of reason, mysticism, ethics, Qur'an, and Shari'a.
