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).
