RT Article
T1 Pantheism, Panentheism, and Ecosophy: Getting Back to Spinoza?
JF Zygon
VO 57
IS 3
SP 545
OP 563
A1 Valera, Luca 1985-
A1 Vidal, Gabriel
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1815281340
AB Many authors in the field of Environmental Philosophy have claimed to be inspired by Spinoza's monism, which has traditionally been considered a form of pantheism because nature and God coincide. This idea has deep normative implications, as some environmental ethicists claim that wounding nature is the same as wounding God, which implies a resacralization of nature. In particular, we will focus on Arne Næss's Ecosophy (or Deep Ecology) to offer a current relevant example of the pantheist (or panentheist) worldview. However, a new demarcation distinguishes pantheism from panentheism; in the latter, nature and God belong together but do not fully coincide, as in pantheism. Nevertheless, whether Spinoza is a panentheist, pantheist, or neither has yet to be fully determined, as well as whether his doctrine serves as a proper foundation for an ecology that attempts the aforementioned resacralization of nature. This article attempts to clarify these issues.
K1 Spinoza
K1 Pantheism
K1 Panentheism
K1 Naess
K1 Haeckel
K1 ecosophy
DO 10.1111/zygo.12800