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(2015) Ecology, ethics, and the future of humanity, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The purpose of philosophical thinking is to create new directions for human thought and open people to follow those paths. Changing how you conceive of reality itself and your own place in it changes how you live day to day, incrementally transforming your identity. If you have ever made a serious change in your life priorities, you remember your life before this shift as if you were a different person. I take this notion profoundly literally. If the power to transform yourself through thought is philosophy's highest, then philosophy is primarily an ethical matter. Beyond the scale of the self, philosophy's power becomes political. As human thinking transforms the identities of enough people, the character of a society accordingly transforms. Such transformation is a political revolution, a new image of humanity coming to life. This final chapter examines how transformations in thinking can lead to transformations in society, and the slow political revolution that ecological philosophy offers. As we change ourselves, so we change our civilization.
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Riggio, A. (2015). Ecological selfhood, ecological life, in Ecology, ethics, and the future of humanity, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 167-195.
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